Cameron’s former chief strategist has lost patience with crony capitalism. The new Deputy Chairman of the Party is well-placed to help make real his radical vision.
We first published this piece after her funeral. Today, we re-issue it in honour of the Conservative win there last Thursday. Warm congratulations to Chris Green.
Raised by a single mother on a council estate, and a devotee of social justice, the Welsh Secretary has been making waves.
It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.
Tim Montgomerie and Stephan Shakespeare’s new project is a radical, inventive and long-termist injection into Conservative thinking.
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
The older generation deserve much better proactive care.
The evidence that the home environment has a huge impact on educational and economic outcomes has become impossible to ignore
It is neither paternalistic nor libertarian, but grounded in a “compassionate conservatism” whose roots lie in Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
For the first time in years, young women with push chairs were happy to stop and talk to someone wearing a blue rosette, and even to take balloons for the children.
A new report from Save the Children doesn’t get it all right – but it should raise serious questions.
Instead of the intimidating monolith of a government department, the foodbank offers a live human being to help diagnose and then navigate anothers’ problem.
How does its record look when set against the aims that Iain Duncan Smith set out to the Centre for Social Justice?
One of the cruellest illusions of collectivism, T.E.Utley once pointed out, is that compassion can be delegated to the state.
In Labour-dominated Lewisham, a café proudly displays a photograph of David Cameron.