The Conservatives must become the party for the ‘just about managing’ class
This blog post originally appeared on ConservativeHome For most of the last two decades, and certainly during the Blair era, the Conservatives were playing catch up on campaigning and communications. Things have been turned on their head. The long Tory campaign ahead...
The Conservatives have to make greater inroads into our cities
The Conservatives do not have a problem in the North. As Policy Exchange’s report Northern Lights highlighted, if you took the TransPennine Express train from Liverpool to Newcastle you would find that 13 of the stops are in Conservative held seats and 19 in Labour....
Labour’s star speaker isn’t such a star
David ‘Axe’ Axelrod has come in for some criticism for his lack of visibility in the UK since his appointment by Ed Miliband earlier this year. Apart from misspelling Miliband’s name on Twitter, the former Obama adviser has been noticeably absent and seemingly...
Some tips for the party leaders’ conference speeches
Politics is not so dissimilar to listening to a piece of music. People, by and large, do not pay attention to the individual notes. They simply tune into the final masterpiece. This explains why every time you pick up a newspaper or turn on the news, you will...
