conservative leadership

4 min read 2022-09-02 11:04:02

Race to 10 Downing: Will Liz Truss’ tax cut proposals help her win the UK election?

There is a strategy behind Liz Truss’s approach; there are votes to be won by focusing on taxes — but these are among Conservative party

1 min read 2022-09-01 17:03:21

Parliament returns from the summer recess on Monday with a new Conservative Party leader and, shortly afterwards, a new prime minister when the Queen

1 min read 2022-09-01 17:03:21

Parliament returns from the summer recess on Monday with a new Conservative Party leader and, shortly afterwards, a new prime minister when the Queen

2 min read 2022-08-12 12:53:29

It was a night that confirmed what many people already thought. For those of us on the outside, it’s now clear that the Conservative party

3 min read 2022-08-12 01:24:23

Warming up the audience at the Darlington hustings for the Conservative leadership on August 9th, Tom Newton Dunn as compere asked if Boris Johnson

3 min read 2022-08-08 16:38:12

The problem with the present Tory leadership contest is that it looks worryingly like a presidential campaign. We’ve seen televised debates among

5 min read 2022-08-07 14:30:03

The nuclear reactor we should be worried about Forget about Chernobyl. That was small fry worry. Focus instead on the largest nuclear power plant in

2 min read 2022-08-01 01:00:05

Liz Truss was a British Republican when an undergraduate. Now she’s much more an American Republican than a British Conservative. Her rhetoric

2 min read 2022-07-30 23:54:37

Trollies are being wheeled out of supermarkets stacked with booze. The BBQs will tomorrow be lit to sear burgers and sausages to the point of

4 min read 2022-07-28 19:28:06

Electricity bills set to soar to £500 a month in October, in my own area West London the electricity grid has hit capacity and a ban on

5 min read 2022-07-26 14:04:13

The press release from the Lib Dem Press Office just after the BBC debate between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak last night was very short. Lib Dems

2 min read 2022-07-23 22:46:22

Here on LDV, we have been reviewing the past of a politician who might our next prime minister. Once an ardent Lib Dem with a passion for getting rid

2 min read 2022-07-21 00:27:46

There are several parallel realities in politics. But Boris Johnson lives in a bubble of his own making. Having taken a few days off for goodbyes, a

3 min read 2022-07-20 16:37:10

The Conservative leadership campaign has been a competition to demonstrate the best small-state tax-cutting credentials, with little concern for what

1 min read 2022-07-19 23:56:26

Tory leadership candidates have been whittled down to three in the penultimate round of voting. Today’s result was: Rishi Sunak 118 Penny