The Conservatives are the only political party able to say they take the country’s £100bn debt bill and £65bn welfare bill seriously, says Jamila Robertson

We have heard the government assert time and again, that they are taking the difficult decisions. Almost a year on, with inflation up from two per cent to 3.5 per cent, unemployment rising to 4.6 per cent and growth a fantasy, it seems their decisions have proved politically inconvenient and economically fruitless.

Anyone who has knocked on a door in the past year will have been confronted by a depleted electorate resigned to perpetual disappointment by whichever “lot” is in government. This despondency goes some way to explaining the rising appeal of protest parties like Reform, the Lib Dems, Greens and a host of independents. You might think that voters, so royally disappointed, would abandon politics altogether – and whilst many have, (last year’s general election turnout of 59.7 per cent was the lowest since 2001), others are choosing to roll the dice one last time by looking outside the two traditional parties.

The British people want the change they were........

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