Conservative Party Conference: Policy - Membership snubs ballot on manifestoAndrew Grice
Our railways are already improving now they have been liberated into the private sector. Passenger numbers are up: more people are using the railways every day. Investment is up: Railtrack plans to spend £4 million each day on improving stations and maintaining and renewing the network. The ...
“My path to victory is not winning the party membership,” he says. “My path to victory is bringing new people in and having a decent level of support within the party.” He says his team has a large campaign in the Sikh, Muslim, Tamil and Chinese communities “that have all fe...
The reconstruction of past trends in party membership can be fraught, especially when parties themselves kept no aggregate records. This was the case with the British Conservative party prior to 1946. The aggregate figures never existed, and the data that would be required to construct no longer ...
Don’t you remember how the Hamas leadership turned down the offer of a cease fire (without any pre conditions) because the numbers of the dead were just not quite high enough to garner the sympathy of the gullible? But then accepted the cease fire on the exact same terms several weeks ...
Brexit will cause – and is already causing shortages both skilled and non-skilled labour power for employers because of reduced numbers of EU nationals working in Britain, and a decline in EU students at British universities. 展开 DOI: 10.1177/194277861901200307 ...
For the nation as a whole, we have introduced the Training Opportunities Scheme, to meet the needs of an economy in which rapid technological change and new patterns of demand shut down old jobs and open up new ones. We have nearly trebled the numbers being trained and retrained under Gover...
The headline numbers of councillors in Wales conceivably underplays Conservative strength somewhat. In several rural parts of Wales (notably Powys, where the Conservatives hold both parliamentary seats), the tradition of independent councilors remains strong. ...
There is no open-and-shut case for refusing Farage party membership. But a future leader may regret it. November 22, 2023|Henry Hill|ToryDiary He said at conference that: “I’d be very surprised if I were not Conservative leader by ‘26. Very surprised.” Even if he was joking (and...
Sam Bidwell: Ignoring Jenrick will doom the Conservative Party Joe Egerton: CCHQ’s obsessive secrecy over membership numbers is playing into Farage’s hands Christopher Snowdon: This January, let’s say boo to the nanny state, and let Britain lead ...