Zarah Sultana, one of seven from Labour left suspended over rebellion, says there is ‘moral imperative’ to scrap two-child benefit cap
The Conservatives do not do mergers, party leadership hopeful James Cleverly said when asked what his party should do about Reform.
He was asked about a YouGov survey that showed roughly half of Conservative members were in support of merging with Nigel Farage’s party.
The simple truth is that we have got a series of principles. We believe in civil liberty, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in the efficient but modest size of the state, lower taxes.”
The party that I have been a member of for many decades has been the most successful political movement, I think, in human history.”
But we’ve also got to recognise that at this general election those things we have achieved were overshadowed by a number of negatives, so we didn’t get the cut-through for our successes and the criticisms really, really landed.
I think one of the reasons why the criticisms landed, and the good work didn’t get cut-through, is we’d spent too much time rowing amongst ourselves, which gave the impression – the wrong impression – but gave the impression that we were more focused on ourselves than serving the British people. So we have to get out of that habit.”
Of course the American elections will be of interest, but we can’t put our job of being a good and credible opposition and charting the path towards future electoral victories … you can’t put that on hold because of the electoral processes in another country.”
I’m not an American citizen, so it’s a moot point. It’s not a test of candidates in a British political system to ask them what they would do in a parallel universe where they weren’t British, but were actually American.”
Continue reading…Zarah Sultana, one of seven from Labour left suspended over rebellion, says there is ‘moral imperative’ to scrap two-child benefit capThe Conservatives do not do mergers, party leadership hopeful James Cleverly said when asked what his party should do about Reform.He was asked about a YouGov survey that showed roughly half of Conservative members were in support of merging with Nigel Farage’s party.The simple truth is that we have got a series of principles. We believe in civil liberty, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in the efficient but modest size of the state, lower taxes.”The party that I have been a member of for many decades has been the most successful political movement, I think, in human history.”But we’ve also got to recognise that at this general election those things we have achieved were overshadowed by a number of negatives, so we didn’t get the cut-through for our successes and the criticisms really, really landed.I think one of the reasons why the criticisms landed, and the good work didn’t get cut-through, is we’d spent too much time rowing amongst ourselves, which gave the impression – the wrong impression – but gave the impression that we were more focused on ourselves than serving the British people. So we have to get out of that habit.”Of course the American elections will be of interest, but we can’t put our job of being a good and credible opposition and charting the path towards future electoral victories … you can’t put that on hold because of the electoral processes in another country.”I’m not an American citizen, so it’s a moot point. It’s not a test of candidates in a British political system to ask them what they would do in a parallel universe where they weren’t British, but were actually American.” Continue reading…