Very good piece - let's hope all Conservative MPs read this and pull together between now and the election.

Why on a weekend when there are train strikes and tube outages are buses in central London getting randomly cancelled without explanation TfL? Bus intermittency has been like this for ~2 weeks now.

London has some of the most socially conservative communities in the country (for reasons I can't possibly begin to fathom...)

Absolutely gutted to be so near, yet so far.

It has been my honour to serve citizens in the WM for the last seven years, and I hope I have done it with dignity & integrity.

I am proud of what we have achieved together and I hope my successor can build upon it.

Thank you all.

How much can artificial intelligence and machine learning accelerate polymer science?
My reflections on the prospects for 'self-driving labs' and AI accelerated materials discovery, based on last week's High Polymer Research Group conference
softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=3…

This view is not conservative.

The best performing state schools are ALL faith schools (largely Catholic). Banning them due to weird liberal ideology would be a catastrophic, unproductive own-goal.

🚀 Ben Houchen won (once again) because of his clear record of delivery and doing what he promised: green jobs, reindustrialisation with an active state.

Just what Nick Timothy Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 called for in Onward's Future of Conservatism project
ukonward.com/reports/a-cons…

Worth a look

Understand this if you understand nothing else. Hamas would commit genocide on Israeli Jews if it could. But it doesn’t have the capability to do so. Israel does have the capability to commit genocide in Gaza. But it does not. Otherwise there would be nobody left in Gaza.

So they want women to be equal to men but also don't think women actually exist (since anyone can be one). 🤡

Digging into the Muslim vote numbers a little more at @jlpartnerspolls

In the 5 wards called so far with the highest Muslim populations with comparable data, Labour's average vote share went from 70% in 2021 to just 28% yesterday

Speaking purely for myself, I believe in privatisation where it works and nationalisation where it works.

People on the right don't want to privatise state schools or the health service or the army. So we are just arguing about the merits of each case, not ideology.

Further evidence against the myth of the 'Buccaneering British', or - dare I say it - Uber riding, Deliveroo ordering, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

As Tolkien spotted, doubtless referring to the English: 'Where our hearts truly lie is in peace, and quiet.'

Congrats to Ben Houchen - Ben spoke last year at our first Future of Conservatism @UKonward event on industrial strategy, levelling up & regional economies.

This is how the future Conservative Party should think and sound.

Congratulations to Ben Houchen - a Mayor who has delivered for his area. And a reminder that a Toryism of a big tent, Levelling Up, industrial strategy and big bold infrastructure plan can be enduringly popular. Hope that the national party is taking note from his success.

Luke Tryl Nick Timothy Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 Absolutely. They’re spot on and the Onward work is hugely important. Similarly I made the case for reindustrialisation and a more active state in Little Platoons and New Snobbery. The success of Ben, against national trend, shows electoral potency of this Toryism.