Enoch Powell during the National EU Referendum Campaign Press conference at the Waldorf Hotel, London, June 1975
REHABILITATE Enoch Powell, a Tory representative demanded today as the Conservative conference got back to basics.
The demand came in a debate about immigration, traditionally a moment for the party to display the worst of its bad sides.
Powell had, the member claimed, been “smeared for a fair and accurate description” of the consequences of migration in his notorious 1968 “rivers of blood” speech, and the party should apologise.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
