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Conservatives Articles

Repeal risks

Brexit should bring urgency to finding new models of employment relations, writes Nita Clarke In 2016, as parliament debates the right to debate the terms of our withdrawal from the European Union, many British workers wait anxiously for reassurance that their...

For yacht’s sake

'For yacht’s sake', Conservative spin doctors were caught mouthing as they hurried through Whitehall. In a parallel universe this morning. On the day it emerged that quitting the European Union would cost £66bn a year, the news that the Tories might give the go-ahead...

Drop plans for a hard Brexit

For months there has been much debate about what ‘Brexit means Brexit’ actually means. This week Theresa May has made clear Brexit means ‘hard’ Brexit, which in turn means there will be disastrous consequences for our jobs and economy. The prime minister’s speech at...

Tories don’t understand children, parents or ‘meritocracy’

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...