What do you think of these 23 ideas to win the next election?
By Tim Montgomerie
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The latest ConservativeHome survey is live. I'm grateful to readers on Twitter for helping me put together a list of changes / achievements that could help the party win the next election. I decided not to test putting George Osborne in an acid bath and pushing the Cabinet off a cliff. Twitter can be an ugly place.
- A change of Labour leader from Ed Miliband to someone like Yvette Cooper
- Signs of reasonable economic recovery
- A pact with UKIP that avoids the two parties standing against each other in marginal seats
- A pact with the Liberal Democrats that avoids the two parties standing against each other in marginal seats
- A bankable promise to deliver an EU referendum
- Stronger policies on crime and immigration
- A new party leader like Boris Johnson
- A new party leader like William Hague
- Replacing George Osborne with a potentially more popular Chancellor
- A plan to cut taxes and energy bills for ordinary families
- A strong commitment to protect the NHS
- A new consumer agenda that reduces the power of big banks, energy companies and supermarkets
- Dropping controversial policies like House of Lords reform and gay marriage
- Greater party unity and loyalty to David Cameron
- More northern and working class candidates with experience of life beyond politics
- Replacement of the Human Rights Act
- Sustained attacks on Ed Miliband and Ed Balls
- A housebuilding policy for young people
- A successful debt reduction policy
- Some devolution to England
- End of the Barnett formula that favours Scotland in distribution of public funding
- Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan
- Cut foreign aid and spend the savings on Britain's poorest pensioners
What you need to do please is click here and rate the potency of these factors and also answer some other questions on Cabinet and Coalition performance.
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