3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (460+ words) Burnham's mask is slipping The vulnerability for him is that so many of the claims he is making are false. What could a Burnham win mean for the Tories? The Conservatives will not be pivotal in Makerfield, but the Tory…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (242+ words) There was only one contest yesterday. The Lib Dems gained a seat from the Conservatives in Swansea. The post Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home. Swansea " Fairwood Lib Dems 240 (29. 3 per cent, +19. 9 on 2022) Labour…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (248+ words) As the dust settles after the local elections in London, the political landscape has changed drastically from 2022. There is a record number of parties controlling councils and the highest number of councils under no overall control that we have ever…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (476+ words) Tomas Roberto is UK Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy at The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation For years, Britain has extended diplomatic and legal privileges to Hong Kong's Economic and Trade Office (HKETO), granting itimmunitiesand protectionsunder the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (647+ words) If the premise is "chuck out the ones who have no impact" then she"s got a lot of scope" This Tory barb about the current shadow cabinet has been the sort of sentiment that has been palpable in recent…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (663+ words) Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of'The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. The Iran conflict is making the case for defence more forcefully than a decade of articles, think tank commentary, Defence Select Committee reports or…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (144+ words) George Beglan holds an LLM (Distinction) from Durham and read Jurisprudence at Oxford; he has published on law reform in the Cambridge Law Review Britain's fertility rate is 1. 41. Replacement is 2. 1. The gap between those two numbers is not a cultural…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (995+ words) Cllr Phil King, is the Hon Treasurer of the Conservative Cllrs Association, deputy leader of Harborough District Council and a member of Leicestershire County Council. The local elections on May 7th delivered a political earthquake. The left suffered heavy losses across…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (621+ words) Fredrick Ostlund is Chairman of Moderaterna i Storbritannien (Swedish Conservatives in the UK). History does not forgive nations that mistake naivety for virtue and weakness for wisdom. For a decade, Sweden made both errors and it paid a terrible price....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (261+ words) Laurence Fredricks, is Senior Researcher at Onward." "Since the 1980s, housing has increasingly been treated as a commodity to be bought and sold," Burnham said. "If you see housing purely like that, you end up with a housing crisis " and that's…...