Conservatives would do well to prioritise above all else the promotion of young, intelligent and furiously ambitious staffers granted a level of autonomy not seen since the administration of Empire.
There is no time for writing yet more reports about Child Sexual Exploitation: the Government wishes to show it is now going to act.
Each side fears the other’s approach will give the courts too much scope to interfere with the operation of the new law.
Starmer is unlikely to resist, and even were he minded to try, the Casey Review and his own record in Northern Ireland would make it impossible.
There is no political consent for open borders. The state needs to police who comes here, and thus effective tools to deter and to remove those rejected.
We are urging Suella Braverman and Chris Philp to listen to the Psilocybin Access Rights campaign, part of a wider discussion about a fundamental human right to access medicine.
The Home Secretary describes the UK’s approach as “robust and novel” and says other countries who share the same problem understand the British stance.
Insisting on degrees is an example of pointless red tape, and I want to get rid of all such bureaucratic burdens. Sir Stephen House’s Operational Productivity Review is designed to do just that.
As drafted it would let many of those who block highways and vandalise property get away with it, just as they do today.
Our laws are now indisputably biased towards far-left organisations, and unfairly penalise ideologically-aligned groups that have a right-wing programme.
The need to review every deportee on a case-by-case basis gives campaign groups the chance to bog it down in legal trench warfare.
More and more Quangocrats paid well in excess of the Prime Minister have added to costs without adding to performance.
We need to review the European Convention on Human Rights. We need proper asylum processing centres instead of dumping traumatised people in hotels.
More interceptions is no long-term substitute for jailing the traffickers and making the UK’s processing and deportation systems fit for purpose.
A proper refugee visa pathway would ensure Britain remained accessible to genuine refugees, ease pressure on the Home Office and the Treasury – and bolster the legitimacy of deterrence too.