Adam G

This country needs tough love and a leader with the courage to make tough choices. Cut the size of the state. Cut welfare. Cut taxes. Get business & employment growing again and fund our defence properly. @KemiBadenoch is the only leader up to the job.

NO ‘UNITING THE RIGHT’. Lord Ashcroft's latest polling confirms what we’ve said all along - any thoughts of ‘uniting the right’ to try and win power are based on a flawed interpretation of voting intentions: - A Conservative-Reform pact would poll 13 points below the sum of its parts and Conservative voters would bear the cost. - A joint ticket would poll 28 per cent against a combined 41 per cent for the two parties separately: a 13 point loss. - That gap has widened since last year, when it was 10 points, so Conservative voter resistance to a pact has hardened, not softened. - The Conservative-Reform ceiling is 33 per cent. The Conservatives' own ceiling is 38 per cent, the highest of the three. Going it alone leaves the most room to grow. - Conservative voters are far more likely than Reform voters to oppose working with the other side, so the damage from any deal falls disproportionately on us. - A pact only trims Labour's lead from 7 points to 5. It does not deliver a winning position. - Reform's poll lead has disappeared, and by-elections in Gorton and Denton, Caerphilly and Makerfield showed voters will vote tactically to keep Reform out. Their path to a majority is pretty much impossible. - Conservatives are now equals rather than the junior partner, which removes any argument that we need Reform to be competitive. - An alliance would be doomed to fail and the Conservatives have much more to lose from trying. Our approach has been consistent all the way through. We stand on our own record, our own values and our own plan and we compete for every vote. conservativehome.com/2026/09…