Tag Archives: Change

Aren’t these modernising groups just today’s Conservative Party?

For some time, it has irked me that the government says it will remove funding from a particular programme, there’s a storm of protest, and then it says it won’t. I’d like you to set aside the merits of  any … Continue reading

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Sir Gus is right on taking risks – but it will take more than words to change Whitehall culture

Public service culture is becoming an important area of discussion, including on this website. Yesterday, writing in the Daily Telegraph, the outgoing Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell said: “There is of course some cultural inertia to overcome…we must be more … Continue reading

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Banging vs balance

Last night, David Cameron’s appearance before the 1922 committee was greeted with rapturous banging on desks. This is weird. Normal people do not do that. One of the disappointments I’ve had (it’s not a huge one in the wider scheme … Continue reading

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Where are the centrist Conservatives? They need to make their voices heard

There is hubris amongst many in the Conservative Party that since David Cameron’s elevation to the leadership that somehow battle to create (and maintain) a centrist Conservative Party has been won. Granted most of the key architects are now in … Continue reading

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Mods, trads and why we’re all Conservatives

followed by followed by Then  As I wrote in the Conservative Way Forward magazine during the party conference, ‘modernising’ (which is ugly shorthand and not something I would ever talk about in that way directly with voters) is not about … Continue reading

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