For all the Shadow Chancellor’s efforts to pose as the voice of fiscal discipline, pressure for higher spending from her colleagues and party continue to add up.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
The Tories of the 2030s will need to make a complete clean break with the 1980s. We can think new ideas – and return to older ones to conserve and protect the institutions that make up the social fabric of this country.
The shift to subsidies is more than the timely, targeted and temporary measures that we saw during the pandemic, and signifies a bigger change in global public policy.
We need a Free World Trade Organisation – a democratic alliance to achieve energy independence and control crucial supply chains
During the last year, we’ve learned much about the Government – but far more about ourselves.
It will need to make hard choices and to show evidence of a clarity and long-term vision that, to date, have been rather notable by their absence.
Reshaping Whitehall must be sanctioned by the Prime Minister, but he can empower the Government’s proven reformer, Michael Gove, to drive change.
One of the most dangerous sequences in politics goes like this. “Something must be done. Here’s something. Let’s do it.”
We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
I have reluctantly concluded that there needs to be greater regulation of the veracity of claims made by registered participants in political campaigns.
It is essential that voters do not come to believe that those politicians who support a free economy have become obsessed by leaving the EU.
Forget delusions of grandeur, memories of empire, or fantasies of running an EU superstate – let’s focus on setting a good example.
That is the mission of ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is holding its inaugural meeting in London. The public want a better, more productive and dignified economy, and a politics and a public culture which honours their values.