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  • Scratch the Surface – Labour’s first hundred days

    Councillor Judith Holt from Havering laments Labour's quick switch to the 'Nasty Party'

  • Mark my words: Getting the Conservative Party back on track

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, notes that in the Westminster village and amongst the media elite, the conventional wisdom is that elections are won from the "centre ground". But the truth is that they are won from the "common ground", which is a rather different thing.

     

  • Singapore or Lebanon? Immigration policy matters more than we ever realised.

    Guest blogger Andrew Hunt looks at the economic tradeoff from our refusal to get to grips with immigration

  • Mark my words: We need to stop playing safe

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, says fortune favours the brave and he hopes all four leadership candidates put forward some genuinely bold and imaginative ideas at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. 

     

  • Who is the real Keir Starmer?

    Our quizzical scribe wonders whether he has been badly misled by the Prime Minister - and concludes he has

  • Some thoughts on the National Convention race

    Philip Stephenson-Oliver, Conservative campaigner and the current chairman of Queen's Park and Maida Vale Conservative Association, gives some feedback from the coalface of the ongoing National Convention election 

     

  • Does New Zealand show the answer for the Tories?

    Sam Collins, PopCon's Head of Public Affairs and former New Zealand National Party candidate, looks back to National's catastrophic defeat in 2002 to see what lessons could be learned by the Tories

     

  • Germany calling…Germany calling…

    PopCon's humble scribbler reviews Sir Keir Starmer's trip to Germany

     

  • Mark my words: Conservatives need to fight back on the economy

    In his latest weekly column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, says whoever we choose as leader and whatever strategy we adopt, the Labour government is already providing plenty of ammunition for the Opposition.

     

  • Mark my words: What do Conservative Party members want?

    In his weekly column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at the results of our latest opinion panel survey. 

     

     

  • Mission Impossible

    PopCon's resident renaissance man Swift explains the facts of life about Labour's 'mission-led government'

  • Mark my words: Be careful what you vote for

    In his new weekly column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks back at the last few weeks since Labour came into power.