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This week the secretary of state for education's conference speech made clear that the Tories don't understand children, they don't understand parents, and they don't have the policies necessary to create the ‘meritocracy’ that they speak of. First, the very fact that...

Much of the rhetoric of this week’s the Conservative party conference speeches deployed immigration as a scapegoat. At times it was not quite clear whether one was watching a the United Kingdom Independence party conference rather than a Tory one. Nowhere was this...

Theresa May’s speech yesterday, more than any other prime minister’s speech I can remember, simply beggars belief. She was able to look straight into the camera and give a speech that would just about be understandable if there was not such a chasm between the...

Subtle it wasn’t. When Theresa May set out, in her end-of-conference speech, to establish (rather than earn) her mandate, she quickly dispelled any thoughts that her soothing words on the steps of Downing Street some 80-odd days ago were a flight of fancy. Instead,...