Thank you, Henry | Conservative Home

I am writing today not just to let you know – as he himself has done in his final Tory diary – that Henry Hill is moving on from ConservativeHome after more than a decade with the site but to properly thank him.

Henry first joined ConHome in 2013 as an Assistant Editor, rising through News Editor to become Deputy Editor at the start of 2022. Across all of those roles, and all of those years, his output was prolific and wide-ranging.

Regular readers will know Henry for his writing on two subjects in particular. The first is constitutional and Union questions. His Red, White, and Blue column became a fixture for anyone trying to make sense of devolution, the integrity of the United Kingdom, and the often-tortuous politics of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. He wrote about these subjects with a seriousness that was not always fashionable and a clarity that made complex constitutional arguments genuinely accessible.

The second is housing – an area where Henry argued consistently and forcefully that the Conservative Party needed to grapple with the scale of the problem rather than look the other way. Whether or not readers agreed with every position he took, he helped ensure the debate had a home on these pages.

Beyond the daily output, Henry built a considerable profile outside ConservativeHome – writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Times, the New Statesman, CapX, UnHerd, The Critic, and others; as well as regularly appearing on programmes such as Newsnight, Sky Papers and Politics Live. Henry was also a familiar fixture in ConservativeHome’s Party Conference programme, where his chairing was sharp, well-briefed, and good-humoured (as long as your question wasn’t more of a comment!).

Henry leaves with our gratitude and our very best wishes for the future.

Thank you, Henry.