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4 Oct, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Another big day in the @CPSThinkTank Theatre at #cpc21 - at 11am I’ll be asking how SMEs can fix the housing shortage with @EddieHughes4WN and others. Then at 1230 we’ve got @FrankLuntz & @GoodwinMJ in conversation with @JohnAshmore.
Then we’re asking how clean free trade can help the planet (1400), launching our Road to Net Zero series with @aviva (and @andrealeadsom, @BenHouchen and @FrankLuntz) at 1530, and bridging the digital divide with @mattwarman & Patricia Hewitt at 1700.
Finally, I’m in conversation with Foreign Secretary @trussliz at 1830. Join us for any/all of the above - full details at cps.org.uk
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3 Oct
If you're at #cpc21, make sure you get into the secure zone in time for our blockbuster opening panel - @FrankLuntz, @SirGrahamBrady, @KateAndrs, Michael Spencer & me on the state and future of conservatism. 1400 in @CPSThinkTank Theatre by the main stage drive.google.com/file/d/1S_wO1a…
After that at 1530 we've got four of the Tories' brightest young MPs to explain/explore what levelling up means, with @alysdenby of @CapX - @DehennaDavison, @BimAfolami, @alex_stafford & @garethdavies_MP
Followed at 1700 by the great @theresecoffey with @jameskirkup, @JamesHeywood & Gavin Rice of @csjthinktank on the Tory agenda for welfare. All welcome! (There may even be free stuff.)
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29 Sep
Right. Keir needed a good speech - and that was a good speech! Or at least, it was a good speech that was unfortunately followed by a longer, much duller and far more muddled speech.
But it also leaves us sort of where we were (as these speeches always do). If you were keen on Starmer but worried about his party, you still are (which is why I think those heckles do actually hurt, even though he dealt with them well).
If you think Starmer is a good administrator but worry about his political antennae, the failure to chop much of the second half (where the crowd basically went into a coma) probably reinforces that.
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23 Sep
Narrator: 'those who work hard and play by the rules' did not, in fact, originate in Priti Patel speeches justifying her cruel immigration policies.
I mean Google is literally a thing.
It's in one of Gordon Brown's party conference speeches for Christ's sake britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive…
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23 Sep
Fascinated that @Keir_Starmer has picked the 'contribution society' as his big theme - since we've just published a major report on contribution in welfare (which I wrote about here capx.co/fair-welfare-c…). But our report highlights the tensions for Labour/Starmer here. (1/?)
These are the first three of Starmer's 10 principles. They are absolutely where the public are. That shouldn't be a surprise - @claire_ainsley, his head of policy, literally wrote the book on this ('The New Working Class').
On welfare, as @JamesHeywood & @jondupont showed in our paper, the public don't think the system is fair. A big part of that is because they don't think it values past contribution - same with eg social housing allocation.
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23 Sep
The Fabian essay is emblematic of Starmer's leadership so far. Interesting in places and almost certainly the right direction for his party but just kind of... bland.
It deals with the massive divides within the Labour movement by basically glossing over them and asserting that the Tories are bad and Labour are good. None of that Cameron/Blair sense of admitting the voters might have had a point in rejecting the party at multiple elections.
There are fights picked with the Corbynites but entirely by implication...
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5 Sep
Have written my column on a hugely important new @CPSThinkTank report, which raises the alarming prospect that the NHS could be in for a repeat of the Lansley debacle. Quick thread on thesis/findings. thetimes.co.uk/article/minist…
The immediate problem for the NHS is money. There are still Covid patients taking up a chunky (and increasing) proportion of the bed base. And they need reduce capacity to do other stuff (because staff have to get in and out of heavy-duty PPE, patients need to be isolated etc)
On top of that, Covid has seen waiting lists soar to 5m - which @sajidjavid warns could hit 13m. And then there's social care to fix. So clear that £££ is coming/needed.
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