Will Tanner (@Will

Will Tanner

331 posts

Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner

ex-Head of Policy, @10DowningStreet; Founding Director, @ukonward; Sometime writer on politics, policy, and culture. DMs open. Views my own.

Bury Saint Edmunds, England

Joined February 2009

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Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 7, 2024
Over the next month, I'm travelling 2,000 miles through eight states, and a dozen knife-edge swing counties, ahead of the US election. On a bicycle. I'll be writing extensively about the voters I meet and how small-town America feels on the road. Follow the link in my bio ☝️
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 24, 2022
We may get a new Prime Minister today. But how, I hear you ask, can @RishiSunak unite the Conservatives and reverse a 36-point deficit by 2024? With exquisite timing, @jim_blagden and I have a big report out today for @ukonward, based on a 10k @JLPartnersPolls poll. Thread: 1/14
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 28, 2022
There are lots of advantages to working in a thinktank, but one of the best is having your work turned into a @jburnmurdoch graph in the @FT. ft.com/content/940323…
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 26, 2022
It is true that many sectors are currently facing skills shortages. It is not true, as we are often told, that a lack of immigration is the reason. Work visas rose 72% in the year to June. What changed was levels of employer training, which plummeted across all sectors.
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Jul 12, 2024
Labour on Tuesday: Our fundamental belief is that local leaders with skin in the game know what's best for their communities. Labour on Friday: We're imposing a massive solar farm on good agricultural land at Sunnica that local leaders and communities have repeatedly opposed.
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Jul 1, 2024
This is a ridiculous, and dangerous, thing for an aspiring Prime Minister to believe. We're involved in multiple armed conflicts. The threat level from terrorism is Substantial. We face regular cyber attacks. Our adversaries do not clock off at 6pm. The PM is always on duty.
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Jun 6, 2024
I am honoured to have been selected to succeed @Jochurchill_MP as the Conservative candidate for Bury St Edmunds & Stowmarket. I can't wait to continue her work championing West Suffolk Hospital, supporting excellence in our schools, and backing our farmers and businesses.
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 24, 2022
Replying to @Will_Tanner
13/14 Fourth, it means maintaining a socially/culturally conservative stance on issues like crime and immigration to unite the 2019 coalition. When asked if migration has enriched/undermined British culture, voters are split overall. But 75% of constituencies lean "undermined".
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Aug 25, 2024
Empowering teenagers to be independent and make their own decisions is good parenting, not an issue for social services. Extraordinary example of the kind of safetyism that @JonHaidt has long warned about. thetimes.com/article/7009f5…
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 24, 2022
Replying to @Will_Tanner
7/14 The net effect of the exodus among younger and middle aged voters is profound. The "tipping point" at which you are more likely to vote Conservative than Labour is now 57 years - meaning anyone born after 1965 is more likely to be a Labour voter.
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 22, 2024
I have lost count of the number of people who ask me why I'm now obsessed with Rhodesia.
Benedict
@carto_graph
Oct 21, 2024
Every time I see this account I think it’s @Will_Tanner former SPaD to Theresa May and I get awfully confused
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 24, 2022
Replying to @Will_Tanner
9/14 Second, recognise that the party will only recover if it moves to the middle of the pitch on the economy. Just 17% of British voters are economically right-wing and only 5% are economically *and* socially liberal. The voters Tories have lost are economically interventionist
Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Jul 3, 2024
An important message for the people of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket from @David_Cameron 👇 On Thursday, vote for Will Tanner. Vote Conservative.
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Will Tanner
@Will_Tanner
Oct 24, 2022
Replying to @Will_Tanner
6/14 Where have the Conservatives lost the most voters? Among precisely the people they were most successful at convincing to vote for them in 2019: - C1/2 voters - 35-54 year olds - Town and village dwellers - Working age, no degree voters (WANDs) - Red Wall voters