I looked at Leon, Leon looked at Katie and Milly, they all looked at me, and we peered once again into the drain. The water was near the top, and it wasn't moving. Not good. 

Jesse Norman writes for The Telegraph.

To say that the 2024 general election was a disaster for the Conservative Party tests the art of political euphemism to its limits. The result has been to create a wasteland on the centre-Right of British politics.

Jesse writes for the Hereford Times.

A new government in a new parliament is always an opportunity for political renewal. But how vigorously that opportunity is taken varies wildly.

Jesse writes for The Telegraph.

Who should be the next leader of the Conservative Party? Every MP will have their own take, of course. But for me it comes down to two key issues: the task and the person.

Jesse Norman writes for The Telegraph.

It is not given to mere mortal human beings to predict the future. But you don’t have to be the Oracle of Delphi to suspect, as the polls are suggesting, that we may have a Labour government on Friday. 

Utter devastation, I thought as I saw the impact of the flash flooding in Ross-on-Wye last week.

I hope that readers will have shared my delight at the recent news of the Government's new £35 million Action Plan for the River Wye.

It is a rare moment when cash and opportunity come together. We now have a colossal potential long term win before us. And we are in danger of missing it, badly.
 

As I write, we have just had the brilliant news that Herefordshire has been allocated nearly £102 million from the government's new Local Transport Fund, set up after the cancellation of HS2 Phase 2.