Simon Wren-Lewis
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University.
- This weeks post: The Conservatives need to embrace the Centre Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... Why are the Tories focusing on voters in their bloc, and Labour on voters outside theirs? A right wing media can make it seem as if your voting bloc is either the world, or irrelevant.
- This weeks post: The Conservatives need to embrace the Centre Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... Trump is disliked by Conservative voters even more than Labour voters dislike Trump. Badenoch could gain votes by using Trump + Farage’s attachment to him to attack Reform, but she doesn’t
- Y'days post: The Conservatives need to embrace the Centre Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... Farage owns voters concerned about immigration and asylum numbers because the Tories are tainted by the ‘Boris wave’ of post-Covid immigration and the boats will keep coming under Labour.
- New post: The Conservatives need to embrace the Centre Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... Neither Labour or the Tories have learnt that the more they talk about socially conservative issues like immigration in a way that is very similar to Reform, the more they boost Reform’s support