The challenge is not just for us individually to pass on an inheritance to our own children – admirable though that is. It is also for young people as a whole to have a chance of a good education and a good job which does not depend on who your parents are.
Nobody can predict how long the current Iran oil price spike will last but one thing is certain: future global uncertainty.
If a nation applies restrictions against British citizens in its realm, then there should be restrictions against their citizens in the United Kingdom.
Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there’s a reason they have a shadow fleet that aren’t safe.
From a moral perspective, a government has a duty of care towards its citizens and the importing of people with life changing, non-curable diseases is a failure of that duty.
As China and Russia and India build closer links in Britain there are more pressing matters than strategic relevance and a coherent China policy: ministerial musical chairs, another governing party talking to itself, and the ‘Mandelson Distraction’.
Lord Roberts is man of identity not of sophistry, economics or calculation. Equally, I wonder if the British imperial apologists have not bound up their identity with the idea of a noble Pax Britannica, and I wonder if that isn’t a misreading of the historical record.
Prof Kealey wrote on ConHome last week that The British Empire, cannot have been a good thing because the British did not build waterways. In fact, they built easily the most extensive waterways in the world at that time.
At Conservative Friends of India, we’ll keep championing these opportunities and making sure this deal delivers for businesses and communities across the UK.
The public are weary of arguments about “dynamic alignment” and the minutiae of trade arrangements. There is growing concern about the direction of travel – what Labour says appears to be increasingly at odds with what it actually does and how it hurts the very people they claim to represent.
The Prime Minister is fed up with attacks from parliamentarians who never say how they themselves would balance the books.
Our deputy editor debates the ins and outs of Labour’s new national insurance regime for Indian workers on GB News’ State of the Nation.
Indian nationals still received approximately 127,000 work visas, making them the largest group of work visa recipients by nationality. Regardless of our evolving trade relations, Indian nationals are already arriving in Britain in huge numbers, a fact that myopic press coverage of these FTA talks ignores.
China, India and the United States are exploiting their domestic energy advantages to support economic growth and industrial competitiveness. Britain should do the same.