Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Attacks on the wealthy authors of “Austerity 2.0” could backfire’, Financial Times, 18 November 2022
- ‘The Damned Disunited. Will the Conservative Party fall apart under Rishi Sunak’, UK in a Changing Europe, 24 October 2022.
- ‘Austerity, Brexit and 44 days in purgatory: the key stages of Tory rule’, Observer, 22 October 2022.
- ‘The Conservatives have come back from oblivion before’, Financial Times, 21 October 2022.
- ‘”Difficult decisions” require the consent of the country’, The Independent, 20 October 2022.
- ‘Make no mistake: Liz Truss’s days are numbered’, El País, 18 October 2022.
- ‘Nationalised ideas factories would make better policy’, Research Professional News, 12 October 2022.
- ‘The new British government and the House of Commons do not represent the country’, Le Monde, 1 October 2022
- ‘Memoirs are made of this’, Encompass, 1 September 2022.
- ‘Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us’, Observer, 21 August 2022.
Tag Archives: Europe
‘The Tory temperament means a U-turn on Europe is always possible’, Financial Times, 27 September 2017.
The prime minister’s speech in Florence may well help, in the short term, to clear some of the obstacles that currently stand in the way of the UK’s departure from the EU in 2019. But here is a heretical thought: … Continue reading
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‘Forward Together: What the Tory manifesto says about Europe’, UK in a Changing Europe, 21 May 2017
Ah, Hear’Say! Not ‘hearsay’, as in stuff that you can’t really substantiate, but Hear’Say – the reality-TV band who went up like a rocket and down like a stick at the beginning of the noughties. Even if you can’t remember … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 General Election, Conservative Party, EU, Europe, Manifesto, Theresa May
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‘The bloody history of civil war in the Tory party’, Financial Times, 27 February 2016
That the Conservative party believes as much in the strong state as it does in the free economy has long been both its triumph and its tragedy. Triumph because the combination of the two has often proved electorally unbeatable. Think … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, Conservatives, David Cameron, EU referendum, Europe, Euroscepticism
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‘Only 15 per cent of Conservative party members would vote to leave the EU’ (with Paul Webb) Telegraph, 15 June 2015
Europe is already impinging, if only indirectly on Labour’s leadership contest. Andy Burnham in particular has suggested the party needs to be careful it doesn’t ‘do a Scotland’ by associating itself so closely with an all-party campaign that it ruins … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, David Cameron, EU, EU referendum, EU renegotiation, Europe, Euroscepticism, Labour Party, party members
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‘Getting the populists’ message’, Policy Network, 20 February 2014
The power of populism lies principally in its appeal to our emotions, or so we’re often told. That may be true – but only up to a point. Focusing on populism’s emotional appeal allows us to forget that much of … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Mainstream response, Nigel Farage, Populism, UKIP
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