Sold out well in advance, our much-anticipated US Presidential Election Night Party was a resounding success. We were joined by over four hundred guests and a number of MPs, and members of our team spent the day and night talking to press from around the world, providing preamble, live updates and reactions to the remarkable events of the night. We […]
Steven George-Hilley joined Parliament Street soon after its inception in 2012. Since then he has spearheaded our technology campaign highlighting the importance of technology to improving our public services. Steven has represented Parliament Street in a number of high profile national and broadcast slots including BBC Radio 4 with Edward Stourton, ITV’s Daybreak programme, The Mirror, Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, […]
First published by Conservative Home in October 2016 The Conservative Party still needs to have an internal election – just not the one it was expecting a few months ago. This July, Theresa May became the first leader of the Conservative Party to have also been its chairman. As such, she has better insight into the workings of the party […]
The European Union has been in need of some good news for a long, long time. Between the debt crisis, refugee crisis, Brexit and the insurgency in Ukraine, the EU hasn’t had it easy for a while. It looks as though the US-EU trade agreement, TTIP, is doomed for failure no matter who wins the Presidential election on 8 November, […]
Many have predicted the collapse of the G.O.P. for quite some time. After Governor Mitt Romney’s defeat to President Obama in 2012, political commentators (let’s take a page out of Jose Mourinho’s book and call them “Einsteins”) declared the Republican Party dead and that there was no foreseeable path to the White House. Fast forward to the 2014 midterm elections […]
By Charlotte Chase; Bow Group Member and Co-Founder of Generation Conservative Recent coverage of the Conservative Party Conference reminded me of the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Both the rhetoric surrounding this country’s first woman Prime Minister and its second (both conservative it is importantly noted) have many similarities. Whilst they were equally credited with emitting a strong, capable […]
By Sophia Bryant Last week as the Conservative Party Conference drew to a close, the path which May’s government will follow towards the next General Election became somewhat clearer from the indefinite position she succeeded. Perhaps the most interesting illuminations came from Philip Hammond’s speech regarding the economic direction of the Party, and the emphasis from Theresa May herself on […]
What is a referendum? A referendum is a single-issue vote by which the state delineates decision making on a controversial issue to the people. In the past year, we’ve seen two issues which have long divided nations come to a head at the ballot box, and the results have been a disaster. Last week, the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, […]
Dr. Gintas Vilkelis PhD London’s housing crisis is a symptom of a much bigger systemic problem One of the most important things to realise about the London housing situation, is that it is not a London-confined problem, but rather a symptom of a much bigger (country-wide, maybe even EU-wide) systemic problem, therefore it will be impossible to solve if all […]
The Brexit vote on the 23rd June caused a political earthquake in British politics with Leave winning by 52% to 48%. Whilst negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the British Government are still ongoing as to when Brexit will be triggered and what it will look like, less is known about how perceptions towards membership of the EU have […]
