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  • Why I marched in support of our farmers

    Rachel Carnac, Conservative Group Leader on Canterbury City Council and Vice Chairman the Conservative Rural Forum, marched with and in support of farmers in Westminster today. Here she explains why.

     

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    November 19, 2024

  • Mark my words: Does it matter if people don’t like you?

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks at a strategy Conservatives ought to adopt to win the next general election. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    November 18, 2024

  • Non-crime hate incidents are Orwellian

    PopCon's Head of Campaigns, Andrew Allison, writes about the visit Allison Pearson received from Essex Police accusing her of a non-crime hate incident.

     

    Andrew Allison

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    November 15, 2024

  • The common ground is the winning ground

    PopCon's Head of Communications, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, highlights the reasons why Donald Trump won the US Presidential Election and the lessons the Conservative Party here in the UK can learn from his campaign. 

     

    Annunziata Rees-Mogg

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    November 14, 2024

  • The Church of England is a failing institution

    PopCon's Head of Campaigns, Andrew Allison, explains why the Church of England is a failing institution. "It has lost sight of its purpose; its raison d'être. Until it finds it again, it is doomed to be an even bigger irrelevance than it is now. The new Archbishop of Canterbury, whoever he or she may be, has a huge task on their hands."

     

    Andrew Allison

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    November 13, 2024

  • Scratch the Surface – Labour’s first hundred days

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

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    September 27, 2024

  • 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.

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    September 24, 2024

  • 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

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    September 22, 2024

  • 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. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    September 17, 2024

  • Who is the real Keir Starmer?

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

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    September 15, 2024

  • 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 

     

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    September 06, 2024

  • 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

     

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    September 02, 2024