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: Tory
‘David Cameron is not the man to shoot the Conservative Eurosceptic dog’, Telegraph, 10 May 2016
You know the Tory Civil War is back on when the body-snatching starts again in earnest. A few weeks ago, Winston Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, the MP for Mid-Sussex, made it plain that he took a dim view of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Conservative Party, Conservatives, David Cameron, EU, EU referendum, Euroscepticism, Tory
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‘Are Tory activists weeding out “moderate” MPs?’, Political Studies Association Blog, 6 March, 2014 (with Paul Webb)
When two Conservative MPs were deselected in rapid succession by their local constituency associations, it marked to some a welcome assertion of grassroots rights and power. To others, it was no such thing. Instead the move was an inevitable consequence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne McIntosh, Conservative Party, deselection, grassroots, MPs, parliamentary candidates, selection, Tim Yeo, Tory
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‘Inside the Tory Mind’, Progress, 3 February 2014
The past often sheds light on the present, either by throwing up stark contrasts or by revealing eerie similarities. Stuart Ball’s book, Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918-1945, which came out last year, provides plenty of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher, MPs, Parliament, right-wing, Tory
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What happened to Tory modernisation, Telegraph, 30 September 2013
As David Cameron finally delivers on his promise to recognise marriage in the tax system and announces yet more action on immigration and welfare, it seems like a good time to ask whether – despite the valiant efforts of commentators … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, David Cameron, Francis Maude, modernisation, modernisers, Nick Boles, Tory
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The dwindling Tory party: is anybody out there?, Telegraph, 21 September 2013
David Cameron’s enemies have been quick to pounce on figures which suggest that the Conservative Party’s membership has almost halved since he took over as Tory leader back in 2005. The drop simply proves, they argue, what they have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, David Cameron, Members, membership, Party, Tory
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