Alastair Campbell views the recent National Conservatism conference as a concerning event that highlights an extremist and divisive shift within the Conservative Party.

“if this was at the equip the left wing equivalent the right wing papers would be going insane with this stuff bravaman made this joke about kyostarma who doesn't know the difference between a man and a woman maybe he'll be end up being the first woman leader of the labor party I mean they're just”

Rory Stewart claims the Conservative strategy of making campaign announcements like national service is not driven by policy coherence but is a tactical attempt to appeal specifically to older voters.

“I think what's probably happening and this is I think you can see this in the conservative strategy thus far with this thing about national service which we'll talk about and then today pensions which we'll also talk about is I think that the conservative strategy is focused very much at trying to g”