A lower tax burden will be impossible without less supply of government. And for there to be less supply, there must first be less demand.
When I was responsible for the £600 million a year London Development Agency, I was shocked at how much management focus was just on getting money out of the door.
These may take time to bear fruit, but must reassure the markets now that the growth path in expenditure will be measurably lower. Such measures must involve doing less, as well as doing things differently.
Pay for medical staff is set centrally and restrained whilst boards give administrators generous awards.
It has real democratic authority including with the Lords which might not be so inhibited from voting down new measures which didn’t feature in that manifesto.
The contrast between those blithe campaigns and this appalling landscape is unnerving, and raises profound questions about politicians and truth.
I draw on Public First’s Conservative Leadership Policy Tracker which is being continuously updated for all the above.
Centralising power and imposing top-down reforms usually ends up backfiring on service users in the end.
In future, the economy may run into inflation bottlenecks earlier in economic recoveries than before, thus constraining growth.
The Government should learn from how Johnson got the trains to run on time when he was Mayor of London.
To waste time now on internal factionalisation would be indefensible to so many party members who worked so hard to secure our majority.
There is a clear opportunity for the Conservative Party to be on the side of those who have suffered for doing the right thing,
If we don’t avoid the bear traps, we will face another attack from a new ‘son of UKIP’ force that could unwittingly hand power to a Labour-led coalition.