Conservative Party

In the lead-up to the General Election 2017, Impact Magazine sat down with representatives from the four political societies at the University of Nottingham: The Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Greens. From the Nottingham University Conservatives, we spoke to Sam Hamilton. The Conservatives were a part of the coalition...

Theresa May has gone to the country asking for a mandate. With Brexit dominating debate, she has argued that a stronger Tory government will offer stability in negotiations with Europe. But it’s easy to forget that there are other issues which the government must be held accountable for. May’s...

Local MP Lilian Greenwood: “Brexit is having a chilling effect on our universities”. Having resigned from being Shadow Secretary of State for Transport after the EU referendum result, Lilian Greenwood is under no illusions of the problems facing not only Labour, but the UK as a whole. For her...

No sooner has the result of the EU referendum just about sunk in, we now have a new Prime Minister, after initially being told we would have to wait until September to settle on David Cameron’s successor. And the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, wasn’t keen on hanging around....

This week Tommy Robinson, former leader of the Community Service stampede that is the English Defence League, is to speak at the Durham Union. This is a serious departure for a man who changed his name from Stephen Lennon, presumably because it didn’t sound racist enough. With the EDL...

If you are looking for a sure fire way to totally undermine a highly legitimate argument, then it seems the slinging of popular breakfast items is a good start. Why not follow it up by spitting on a journalist or perhaps indulging in a hint of name calling? “Tory...

Privatisation, as a word and a concept, is saturated with ideological tension and negative connotations. There is no wonder that we struggle to understand what it actually means. It has been wielded by the left of politics to convey everything apparently capitalist and greedy about the Conservative and other...