To bolster its meagre majority,
the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.
Not exact matches
The
Conservatives bought radio ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade during his
leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you
need cost more.»
The person who leads it will
need to win an open
leadership contest, just as Stephen Harper did in 2004 for the new federal
Conservative party.
There is widespread agreement on this
need by all sectors of black
leadership, but neither black liberals nor the new black
conservatives adequately speak to this
need.
The winner of the
Conservative contest therefore
needs to be not only a brilliant negotiator, but also a genius that can deal with the gradual realisation of some in the «Out» camp that the deal available from the EU will be nowhere near as dreamlike as the one floated in the
leadership contest.
The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory
leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and
Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»
«As well as organisational renewal, we
need political renewal: a strong clear signal that under your
leadership the
Conservative party will not become the soulless, technocratic managerial defenders of a divisive austerity Brexit, but the champions of a bold new generation unleashing a spirit of enterprise, energy and ambition.»
But in practice the difficulty for both the Tory and Lib Dem
leadership of maintaining a deal to govern together means that the
Conservatives will
need to woo the Liberal Democrats in a way that Labour would not
need to do were the arithmetic the other way round.
And Bronx
Conservative leader Bill Newmark also touted Malpass's fiscal credentials, saying he will «provide the kind of principled
leadership that is so desperately
needed in Washington.»
Grayling, who was Theresa May's
leadership campaign chief, said the
Conservatives needed to «step up a gear».
«However, I am sorry to say it has become clear beyond doubt to me that you and your team are not providing the strong, forward looking and competent
leadership we
need to provide an alternative government to these increasingly right wing
Conservatives that are doing such damage to this country and to my constituency.
Purchase spoke of his despair at the pragmatic rightwing views which he believed the Labour
leadership had stolen from the
Conservatives and which failed to meet the
needs of those he called «our people».
[4] Among the candidates for the
Conservative Party
leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK
needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.
Mr Clarke, the shadow business secretary, has recently returned to the
Conservative front bench, but his views on whether the party
needs to offer incentives for couples to marry is at odds with the
leadership.
«Public blame the
Conservatives for breaking Coalition Agreement Main The Tory
leadership needs to accept that boundary reform is dead and become much bolder as a result»
As a way around that, MPs will now get to select a shortlist of
leadership candidates for the membership to vote on, along similar lines to the system operated by the
Conservative Party - candidates will
need to be nominated by at least 15 % of Labour MPs.
That said, David Cameron specifically promised that he would take
Conservative MEPs out of the EPP as part of his
leadership campaign - he
needs to follow through on this pledge.
All we
need is for a
conservative policymaker to step up and take a
leadership role to implement this no - brainer win - win of a global warming solution.