Mark my words: The elections: Where now for the right-of-centre?
PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at last week's elections.
Written by Mark Littlewood
May 11, 2026
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NEWS & COMMENT Mark Littlewood: Conservatism is popular – when it solves problems Jacob Rees-Mogg: Why judges have too much power Watch Popular Conservatism launch Holly Valance: Everyone starts off as a ‘leftie’ until we realise ideas are ‘crap’ Mark Littlewood: If you want lower taxes the system is rigged against you Mark Littlewood: There needs to be a major institutional overhaul of the British machinery of government Mark Littlewood: Very happy to have a former Prime Minister at PopCon launch Liz Truss: Conservatives need to be thinking how do we change the system? Liz Truss: We have not taken on the left enough Liz Truss: We are seeing the spread of wokery Jacob Rees-Mogg attacks 'unaccountable' institutions Jacob Rees-Mogg: It’s time for Popular Conservatism Spectator: Will Holly Valance be Liz Truss’s secret weapon? Mark Littlewood: Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism Mark Littlewood interview on Sky News about PopCon Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Holly Valance is the new darling of the right Telegraph: Tories being crushed by incompetent technocrats Suella Braverman: UK values and freedoms under attack Suella Braverman: Calling the countryside racist is ridiculous Left-wing militancy Liz Truss: Why we need a Conservative movement to challenge Left-wing wokery Jacob Rees-Mogg: Budget advice to the Chancellor "be Nigel Lawson, not Gordon Brown," Priti Patel: Everyone has to act together to stop people smugglers, says Priti Patel Priti Patel: People need their money back Growth Commission: What a budget for growth looks like Priti Patel: What's needed in the Spring Budget More criticism of OBR ahead of Spring Budget 'United right' hand PM and Chancellor 10-point plan Must-read: Legatum Institute ten-point plan to save the Tories Mark Littlewood: High tax, high spend Conservatives not a road back to popularity Allister Heath's damning analysis of Spring Budget Liam Halligan: Government at mercy of 'unelected bureaucrats' POPCON Spring Budget analysis Wall Street Journal: Memo to conservatives Telegraph expose: Climate Change Committee cover-up Ex-Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng: OBR has way too much force Liz Truss' Private Members Bill to define sex in law as biological sex Was the Spring Budget left, right or centre? David Davis: Scrap the OBR & end Bank of England independence Labour MPs cynically prevent child safety debate Telegraph slams state bureaucrats Publicly funded body describing Margaret Thatcher as a contempory villain Kemi Badenoch: Britain's diversity drive has backfired Mark Littlewood: Clear blue water between Conservative and Labour policies needed Another unelected body taking control of our lives? Why the OBR is wrong again State bureaucrats spent nearly £1million on furniture The Bank of England’s sinister role in pushing Britain into effective bankruptcy Is Patriotism flagging in the UK? Bewildering nannying Suella Braverman accuses Government of backsliding over Israel Woke madness at the ONS Popular Conservatism in the news Patrick Christys: The Government is giving your hard-earned tax money to hyper-woke academics Hard-left taking control of another organisation? Sarah Dines MP on ECHR: Another attempted ideological power grab Mark Francois MP demands Royal Navy spend on 'weaponry, not wokery' team Calling time on the ECHR? Allister Heath: UK must leave the ECHR now Liz Truss: Cass has been clear. The Government must act Fred De Fossard on ECHR: It will threaten our prosperity and democracy Mark Littlewood: I will be firmly supporting leaving this ludicrous court Fraser Nelson: Liz Truss was right about OBR Dan Hannan: Britain cannot now remain under ECHR Liz Truss: Unelected people changing our societies in ways people don't want to see Watch Liz Truss interviews on her book - Ten Years to Save the West Suella Braverman: The case for leaving the ECHR Smoking ban shows what elites really think of us Mark Littlewood: Conservative Government should embrace all the talents of the party Mark Littlewood: We need clear blue water between Conservative and Labour policies Patrick Minford: UK institutions killed off drive for economic growth Unelected upper house continues to defy elected lower house Tim Stanley: Liz Truss’s riotous romp of a memoir proves she never stood a chance Suella Braveman: Enough is enough. Mark Rowley must go. Reform UK pledges at a glance Esther McVey: Patronising sentencing guidelines make a joke of equality before the law Nigel Farage in explosive row with activist over ECHR Ben Habib: ‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it Kristian Niemietz: Kemi Badenoch was right - Empire didn't make Britain rich Andrew Cadman: Democracy in Decay: Are the elites going too far? Robert Jenrick considers a second Blairite revolution ROBERT JENRICK: LIBERAL ELITES PUT THEIR REPUTATION AT DAVOS AHEAD OF BRITAIN’S INTERESTS Jacob Ress Mogg: time to recognise the truth that net zero by 2050 is unrealistic and unaffordable Suella Braverman's step by step guide to leaving ECHR Robert Jenrick: The Rwanda Bill is a sham. We have no choice but to leave the ECHR Nigel Farage: What Liz Truss was trying to do was right Priti Patel says Rwanda smears from activists, lawyers and politicians unfounded Civil servants refuse to be ‘forced back’ into office two days a week BBC under attack again for bias Did instituional bias of the BBC create GB News? Channel 4 accused of Left-wing bias over election night panel Are Conservative grandees laying the ground to strip grass roots of power? Mark Littlewood says Rishi should take on those seeking to prevent planes taking off Mark Littlewood says pulling plug on Richi would be crazy Council staff off sick long-term soars by fifth since pandemic Taxpayers to fork our £85billion to cover Bank of England losses Signs of shifting momentum on the war on woke? Is the Blob striking back against rwanda bill? Allister Heath: Young activists have been turned into self-entitled narcissists Lord Mervyn King speaks to PopCon mission Taking Back Control Is it time to focus on legal migration? Taxpayer-funded quangos ignore government again Allister Heath's view on the Jenrick legal migration report The first duty to any country is its people Civil servants further defiance of our elected representatives Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Bank of England of ‘miserable incompetence’ over inflation SUPPORT FOR POPCON CONCERNS ABOUT WHO TREATY GROWS... Bank of England bungling will cost every UK household £5,546 GB News hits back at 'alarming' Ofcom ruling Priti Patel: Government lawyers blocked plans to make climate protesters pay for damage We now have proof that mass migration is making Brits poorer BBC’s Gaza coverage has sunk to new lows The infected blood scandal exposes the toxic mendacity of our ruling class Criticism of BBC piles on The shameless political class holds voters in contempt Noisy minorities are being allowed to bully the rest of us into silence Liz Truss: Tory Party needs to change BBC blasted once again for impartiality News channel launches legal challenged against OfCom Should we listen to unelected elites? Lord Hannan: Bank of England has been a disaster LORD FROST: BBC Verify is becoming a tool for elite control of discourse Post-election reaction Doug Stokes: Starmer and the blob Dog-whistling on leaving the ECHR won’t save the Tories now Popular Conservatism: Press Release: Civil disturbances Tory MPs win 1922 tug of war with party officials over timeline for leadership contest John Redwood: How can the Conservatives tackle the Reform challenge? How the Conservative Party can win Telegraph readers back Quentin Letts: We are living in the age of the quangocracy Fears for tiers Up with expertise, down with experts Popular Conservatism: Press release: survey 1 Popular Conservatism: Press Release about illegal migration Allister Heath: Labour’s real agenda for Britain is far more terrible than anyone imagined Press release: Opinion panel survey 2 results Brian Monteith: Five tax questions the next Tory leader must answer Press Release: Survey 3 Results Sam Collins: Sam Collins: Unity? Yes, but not at any price. Press Release: Survey 4 results Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Message from the Tory grass roots - go blue or go bust Philip Johnston: The Quangocracy now governs Britain – it’s time Westminster took back control Telegraph reports on PopCon's choice for Conservative leader Mark Littlewood explains PopCon's decision to back Robert Jenrick Press Release: Popular Conservatism back Robert Jenrick in Conservative leadership race Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Why PopCon backs Jenrick in the Conservative leadership race Popular Conservatism congratulates Kemi Badenoch on being elected the new leader of the Conservative Party David Starkey: How Kemi Badenoch's Tories Can Rebuild Britain Mark Littlewood: Clarity of vision will restore faith in a Tory future Allister Heath: Trump’s triumph is a disaster for Starmer and the self-regarding, virtue-signalling elites SIR JOHN REDWOOD: THERE'S LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE UK FROM TRUMP BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE UK conservatives can learn a lot from Trump - PopCon Survey shows POPCON SURVEY SHOWS CONSERVATIVE CONFIDENCE RETURNING BUT WORK TO BE DONE David Frost: Whisper it, are more Tories going to join Reform? Mark Littlewood: This is how Kemi can defeat Nigel in the battle for the Right Allister Heath: Britain is being systematically lied to by our delusional political elite David Frost: Only radical action can block Britain’s path to penury Paul Goodman: An institutional intifada is coming to crush a Reform government
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NEWS & COMMENT Mark Littlewood: Conservatism is popular – when it solves problems Jacob Rees-Mogg: Why judges have too much power Watch Popular Conservatism launch Holly Valance: Everyone starts off as a ‘leftie’ until we realise ideas are ‘crap’ Mark Littlewood: If you want lower taxes the system is rigged against you Mark Littlewood: There needs to be a major institutional overhaul of the British machinery of government Mark Littlewood: Very happy to have a former Prime Minister at PopCon launch Liz Truss: Conservatives need to be thinking how do we change the system? Liz Truss: We have not taken on the left enough Liz Truss: We are seeing the spread of wokery Jacob Rees-Mogg attacks 'unaccountable' institutions Jacob Rees-Mogg: It’s time for Popular Conservatism Spectator: Will Holly Valance be Liz Truss’s secret weapon? Mark Littlewood: Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism Mark Littlewood interview on Sky News about PopCon Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Holly Valance is the new darling of the right Telegraph: Tories being crushed by incompetent technocrats Suella Braverman: UK values and freedoms under attack Suella Braverman: Calling the countryside racist is ridiculous Left-wing militancy Liz Truss: Why we need a Conservative movement to challenge Left-wing wokery Jacob Rees-Mogg: Budget advice to the Chancellor "be Nigel Lawson, not Gordon Brown," Priti Patel: Everyone has to act together to stop people smugglers, says Priti Patel Priti Patel: People need their money back Growth Commission: What a budget for growth looks like Priti Patel: What's needed in the Spring Budget More criticism of OBR ahead of Spring Budget 'United right' hand PM and Chancellor 10-point plan Must-read: Legatum Institute ten-point plan to save the Tories Mark Littlewood: High tax, high spend Conservatives not a road back to popularity Allister Heath's damning analysis of Spring Budget Liam Halligan: Government at mercy of 'unelected bureaucrats' POPCON Spring Budget analysis Wall Street Journal: Memo to conservatives Telegraph expose: Climate Change Committee cover-up Ex-Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng: OBR has way too much force Liz Truss' Private Members Bill to define sex in law as biological sex Was the Spring Budget left, right or centre? David Davis: Scrap the OBR & end Bank of England independence Labour MPs cynically prevent child safety debate Telegraph slams state bureaucrats Publicly funded body describing Margaret Thatcher as a contempory villain Kemi Badenoch: Britain's diversity drive has backfired Mark Littlewood: Clear blue water between Conservative and Labour policies needed Another unelected body taking control of our lives? Why the OBR is wrong again State bureaucrats spent nearly £1million on furniture The Bank of England’s sinister role in pushing Britain into effective bankruptcy Is Patriotism flagging in the UK? Bewildering nannying Suella Braverman accuses Government of backsliding over Israel Woke madness at the ONS Popular Conservatism in the news Patrick Christys: The Government is giving your hard-earned tax money to hyper-woke academics Hard-left taking control of another organisation? Sarah Dines MP on ECHR: Another attempted ideological power grab Mark Francois MP demands Royal Navy spend on 'weaponry, not wokery' team Calling time on the ECHR? Allister Heath: UK must leave the ECHR now Liz Truss: Cass has been clear. The Government must act Fred De Fossard on ECHR: It will threaten our prosperity and democracy Mark Littlewood: I will be firmly supporting leaving this ludicrous court Fraser Nelson: Liz Truss was right about OBR Dan Hannan: Britain cannot now remain under ECHR Liz Truss: Unelected people changing our societies in ways people don't want to see Watch Liz Truss interviews on her book - Ten Years to Save the West Suella Braverman: The case for leaving the ECHR Smoking ban shows what elites really think of us Mark Littlewood: Conservative Government should embrace all the talents of the party Mark Littlewood: We need clear blue water between Conservative and Labour policies Patrick Minford: UK institutions killed off drive for economic growth Unelected upper house continues to defy elected lower house Tim Stanley: Liz Truss’s riotous romp of a memoir proves she never stood a chance Suella Braveman: Enough is enough. Mark Rowley must go. Reform UK pledges at a glance Esther McVey: Patronising sentencing guidelines make a joke of equality before the law Nigel Farage in explosive row with activist over ECHR Ben Habib: ‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it Kristian Niemietz: Kemi Badenoch was right - Empire didn't make Britain rich Andrew Cadman: Democracy in Decay: Are the elites going too far? Robert Jenrick considers a second Blairite revolution ROBERT JENRICK: LIBERAL ELITES PUT THEIR REPUTATION AT DAVOS AHEAD OF BRITAIN’S INTERESTS Jacob Ress Mogg: time to recognise the truth that net zero by 2050 is unrealistic and unaffordable Suella Braverman's step by step guide to leaving ECHR Robert Jenrick: The Rwanda Bill is a sham. We have no choice but to leave the ECHR Nigel Farage: What Liz Truss was trying to do was right Priti Patel says Rwanda smears from activists, lawyers and politicians unfounded Civil servants refuse to be ‘forced back’ into office two days a week BBC under attack again for bias Did instituional bias of the BBC create GB News? Channel 4 accused of Left-wing bias over election night panel Are Conservative grandees laying the ground to strip grass roots of power? Mark Littlewood says Rishi should take on those seeking to prevent planes taking off Mark Littlewood says pulling plug on Richi would be crazy Council staff off sick long-term soars by fifth since pandemic Taxpayers to fork our £85billion to cover Bank of England losses Signs of shifting momentum on the war on woke? Is the Blob striking back against rwanda bill? Allister Heath: Young activists have been turned into self-entitled narcissists Lord Mervyn King speaks to PopCon mission Taking Back Control Is it time to focus on legal migration? Taxpayer-funded quangos ignore government again Allister Heath's view on the Jenrick legal migration report The first duty to any country is its people Civil servants further defiance of our elected representatives Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Bank of England of ‘miserable incompetence’ over inflation SUPPORT FOR POPCON CONCERNS ABOUT WHO TREATY GROWS... Bank of England bungling will cost every UK household £5,546 GB News hits back at 'alarming' Ofcom ruling Priti Patel: Government lawyers blocked plans to make climate protesters pay for damage We now have proof that mass migration is making Brits poorer BBC’s Gaza coverage has sunk to new lows The infected blood scandal exposes the toxic mendacity of our ruling class Criticism of BBC piles on The shameless political class holds voters in contempt Noisy minorities are being allowed to bully the rest of us into silence Liz Truss: Tory Party needs to change BBC blasted once again for impartiality News channel launches legal challenged against OfCom Should we listen to unelected elites? Lord Hannan: Bank of England has been a disaster LORD FROST: BBC Verify is becoming a tool for elite control of discourse Post-election reaction Doug Stokes: Starmer and the blob Dog-whistling on leaving the ECHR won’t save the Tories now Popular Conservatism: Press Release: Civil disturbances Tory MPs win 1922 tug of war with party officials over timeline for leadership contest John Redwood: How can the Conservatives tackle the Reform challenge? How the Conservative Party can win Telegraph readers back Quentin Letts: We are living in the age of the quangocracy Fears for tiers Up with expertise, down with experts Popular Conservatism: Press release: survey 1 Popular Conservatism: Press Release about illegal migration Allister Heath: Labour’s real agenda for Britain is far more terrible than anyone imagined Press release: Opinion panel survey 2 results Brian Monteith: Five tax questions the next Tory leader must answer Press Release: Survey 3 Results Sam Collins: Sam Collins: Unity? Yes, but not at any price. Press Release: Survey 4 results Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Message from the Tory grass roots - go blue or go bust Philip Johnston: The Quangocracy now governs Britain – it’s time Westminster took back control Telegraph reports on PopCon's choice for Conservative leader Mark Littlewood explains PopCon's decision to back Robert Jenrick Press Release: Popular Conservatism back Robert Jenrick in Conservative leadership race Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Why PopCon backs Jenrick in the Conservative leadership race Popular Conservatism congratulates Kemi Badenoch on being elected the new leader of the Conservative Party David Starkey: How Kemi Badenoch's Tories Can Rebuild Britain Mark Littlewood: Clarity of vision will restore faith in a Tory future Allister Heath: Trump’s triumph is a disaster for Starmer and the self-regarding, virtue-signalling elites SIR JOHN REDWOOD: THERE'S LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE UK FROM TRUMP BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE UK conservatives can learn a lot from Trump - PopCon Survey shows POPCON SURVEY SHOWS CONSERVATIVE CONFIDENCE RETURNING BUT WORK TO BE DONE David Frost: Whisper it, are more Tories going to join Reform? Mark Littlewood: This is how Kemi can defeat Nigel in the battle for the Right Allister Heath: Britain is being systematically lied to by our delusional political elite David Frost: Only radical action can block Britain’s path to penury Paul Goodman: An institutional intifada is coming to crush a Reform government
