Sunak wants Netanyahu to de-escalate – and at least managed to de-escalate the Commons
Andrew Gimson
“Could a call from Downing Street turn Netanyahu into a de-escalatory kind of a guy? One slightly doubted it would have that effect on him.”
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Our party needs an honest debate about these 14 years, not ex-leaders polishing their records
John Oxley
“Instead of a failure, she [Liz Truss] hopes to be seen as an undervalued visionary, able to be a future power player or, perhaps, even have another tilt at the top table.”
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Whatever the result at the next election, the Red Wall is the future of the Conservative Party
Simon Gordon
“Despite having been given the biggest majority the party has had since 1987, quite a few well-placed people in the Party are ill at ease with the influx of new voters.”
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My latest poll finds only four in ten 2019 Tory voters now want the party to win the election
Lord Ashcroft
“Four in ten – including seven in ten Labour voters and 14 per cent of those who voted Conservative in 2019 – chose with the statement: “I don’t care how many MPs the Conservatives have left – the fewer the better”.
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What the foreign policy establishment really thinks of Britain
Peter Franklin
“Obviously, we’re not in the same league as the USA or the PRC, but nor are we just another Belgium or Sweden. We’re a top ten nation and will most likely stay that way for the rest of this century.”
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A new Taoiseach is a vital opportunity to reset relations with Northern Irish unionists
Dr Stephen Goss
“To say that Varadkar’s resignation will not be lamented by unionists would be an understatement.”
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Truss is not amused by the Tobacco Bill, which “infantilises people”
Andrew Gimson
“Streeting from time to time burst out laughing. He sees the way clear before him. “We are the masters now,” his demeanour said; perhaps even “I am the master now”.
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Net Zero, the Smokefree Generation, and the escapist politics of legacy-by-deadline
Henry Hill
“May might get to be the prime minister who kicked off the green revolution; Sunak the one who ended the scourge of smoking. But only if other people make all the political sacrifices and do all the work.”
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The transgender social contagion has ended. But too many Conservatives acquiesced for too long.
Harry Phibbs
“It is not just the transgender issue where Conservatives have too often allowed themselves to be silenced, or even acquiescent, to a flawed ideology.”
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Time and again, nationalisation and excess regulation hold Britain back – yet we demand more of it
John Redwood
“We have seen a long list of these bodies let people down, with hapless ministers then held to account for their failings.”
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