My desires are unconventional
(I mean I'm happy for us to consecrate stuff to nature but it would be great if we could build some effing homes too.)
(Land use stats from here - England-only. Rest of UK is even emptier.) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
(The 30% target is UK-wide because otherwise Boris would have to rip up quite a lot of green fields - couldn't find UK-wide stats on homes and gardens, sorry.)

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8 Oct
Just digging into recent @yougov polling and found a fascinating reproof to Boris's conference speech - even Tory voters want more housing built! (second column)
It's true that the numbers fall when you change the question to 'in my local area', but it is still a majority - and much, much tighter among Tory voters than you would expect from the rampant Nimbyism on stage.
(Anecdotal side note: it is worth flagging that the true blue activist crowd at our @CPSThinkTank fringe meeting with @jacob_rees_mogg went near-unanimously for more housebuilding when he asked for a voice vote.)
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4 Oct
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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