Paul Goodman

We need politicians who show they’ll confront challenges facing the whole country, not appeal to narrow groups of voters

The man in pink trousers making his way through the Palace of Westminster looked remarkably cheerful – as he had every right to be. It was Nigel Farage.

Picture the scene in four years' time on the most solemn day of the year, Remembrance Sunday.

It is impossible to know which candidate will win, but none has yet shown they grasp the scale of the challenges facing the West

There will be four leadership candidates to be inspected — and persuaded by The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector

Stage is set for one of the contenders to wow the conference faithful but this endurance test comes with risks for all

The Conservative Parliamentary Party has euphemistically been described as “the most sophisticated electorate in the world”. For sophisticated, read unreliable.

The candidates each garnered about a third of fellow MPs’ votes, but the fracturing of British politics presents bigger problems, says Conservative peer Paul Goodman

What will this government be most remembered for? Ed Miliband’s wind turbines? Assisted dying? Farm bankruptcies? No: rather, I suggest it will be football. There were some 34 million attendances at football matches in England’s top four divisions in the 2022/23 season. I bet that most of those fans have no idea what’s about to

In the past 50 years, Britain has changed and so have the voters the party once relied on. To survive, the Conservatives must adapt, says Paul Goodman of Policy Exchange