The course consistent with this site’s recommendations is to appoint a more junior Cabinet Office Minister.
The former fear that it will revive what they believe are business-unfriendly ideas about foreign takeovers and workers on boards.
That’s the head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, the Chair of May’s Policy Board, the most important Minister you’ve never heard of…and our former columnist.
We can be proud of our record.
To date, May has been able to junk, water down or delay Cameron’s agenda with little blowback. The Budget NICs furore may change all that.
Whatever Scotland’s first Minister decides to do, events seem to be creating their own momentum.
Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.
He sees the referendum result as a “defining test” for Britain, and is charged with finding solutions to help meet the challenge.
This first piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that the Conservatives must get serious about living within our means.