Over the coming weeks, CapX will be running a number of perspectives on the future of the Conservative Party. If you have an idea you would like to contribute, get in touch at editors@capxstaging.wpengine.com. I am writing this from Ukraine, a nation in arms against President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invading forces. Three hours flying time from […]
I’ve recently seen a plethora of articles supporting drastic changes in planning law, accompanied by the silly slur that all who oppose must be the dreaded ‘nimbys’, or live in fear of them. This can only mean one thing: the latest round in the battle to change planning law – potentially giving developers even more […]
This may be the month that reshapes our relationship with China. At the beginning of last week, a report from the newly-formed Inter-Parliamentary Alliance of China (IPAC) revealed China’s deliberate policy of sterilisation of its Muslim minorities in a Chinese border province of Xinjiang. In the middle of the week, China tore up the treaty […]
The upcoming leadership election is the most important in a generation – perhaps in generations. I am voting for Michael Gove for three reasons. First, we need someone who will renew us in office. Second, we need a leader in Parliament who will relentlessly expose Jeremy Corbyn’s unfitness for public office and third, we need […]
I’m sitting in the Chamber of the House and I can’t help but hum ‘Hotel California’ — it’s the sort of place you can never leave. It reminds me of the Brexit impasse. However hard we try, we can’t seem to work a way through it. I think it is also beginning to dawn on […]
For those following the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, in the immortal words of former US president Ronald Reagan, “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. With the Democrats regaining control of the House of Representatives, Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is likely to become a – perhaps the — dominant theme in DC. […]
We’re just months away from Brexit and we still don’t know what the much touted phrase “Global Britain” means. The Foreign Office and other overseas departments have a rough idea: the UK should be an outward looking, major power and so on. But, thus far, it amounts to little more than opening a few diplomatic […]
At home we are consumed by Brexit — and the World Cup — for as long as both last, but in the world outside, change is happening. The rules-based international system looks weaker now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Our alliances are not failing, but they are in trouble. […]
I keep hearing about the civil war among Tory MPs over Brexit. I am not sure there is one. There’s a small(ish) insurgency — to use a bit of military terminology — which is making a lot of noise due to the make-up of the Commons. The numbers, whilst real, tell a story which would […]
The world is becoming a more dangerous place. The bad-tempered row between the West and the Kremlin over the Skripals’ poisoning is being significantly compounded thanks to the latest chemical weapon attack by Syrian leader President Bashar Al-Assad on his own people. President Trump has warned of a “big price to pay” for this weekend’s […]
It’s becoming likely that the Russian state has been involved in another killing in Britain. Regardless of the detail, Russia has malign intent to this country. We should respond in three ways; accept, understand and act. First, we need to accept that we are in a new Cold War with the Russian Federation. This is not […]
