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  • Mark my words: Are Reform the real deal?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, gives his thoughts on the Reform UK Conference 

     

  • Mark my words: Raising the colours

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, notes that one sector of our otherwise flatlining economy seems to be thriving. If you’re a manufacturer of flags (specifically, the St George’s Cross or the Union Jack), you have been coining it over the last couple of weeks. Keep all your flags flying high! 

     

  • Mark my words: Which politician will give us the unvarnished truth?

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism writes that what we need from politicians of all stripes is frank honesty about the parlous state of the public finances. 

     

  • Mark my words: We desperately need a Signpost

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism quotes the late Tony Benn: "I think that we do need a few more Signposts and few fewer Weathercocks." 

     

  • Mark my words: The Tories need a reset, not a reshuffle

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism notes that a recent opinion poll put the Conservative Party on 16%. When will the penny drop with Kemi Badenoch that the party needs more Conservative positions? And quickly! 

     

  • Mark my words: Trust in politicians reaches a new low

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks back at a week where trust in politics and politicians has reached a new low. 

     

  • Mark my words: Thatcherism - a state of mind

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, reflects on the Margaret Thatcher Centre's Academic Symposium which David Starkey and he spoke at. 

     

  • Mark my words: What a year of chaos it has been!

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks back at a year of chaos. 

     

  • Mark my words: Is the penny dropping?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes that "it does seem that the penny is beginning to drop amongst both Conservatives and Reformers that the next government will need to focus, above all else, on a Great Restoration of Britain’s core constitutional principles."

     

  • Mark my words: More of this, please

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks at campaigning opportunities for the Conservative Party. 

     

  • Mark my words: We are not living in a land flowing with milk and honey

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism says that for too long British ministers have been tied up in quangos, recalcitrant civil servants and international treaties, preventing policies upon which they won power happening. That is why our mission is more important than ever: democracy can only be eroded so far before people rightly demand action.

     

  • Merger mania

    Starmer and Davey - separated at birth?