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Alex Morton: How Sunak can save £30 billion a year

The first group of savings are about making the state more efficient, the second about creating a state focused on the core tasks of government.

Think Tanks | By Alex Morton | 21 October 2020 at 11:30 am | 36 comments

Alex Morton: We need a Help to Build plan to save building new homes from collapse

By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.

Comment, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 10 June 2020 at 6:30 am | 25 comments

Alex Morton: Johnson’s electoral success rests on helping people move from renting to owning their home

Housing played a small role in the 2019 election, but the first piece in a new mini-series notes that home ownership is the key driver of voter behaviour.

Comment, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 14 January 2020 at 6:45 am | 63 comments

Alex Morton: We urgently need to fix the social care crisis

Any reform must be sustainable both financially and politically. Our new report sets out how the Government could do it.

Think Tanks | By Alex Morton | 29 April 2019 at 10:30 am | 37 comments

Alex Morton: Riots, looting, pillaging, yellow vests. France shows what Britain could face if Brexit is blocked.

A new book argues that the country is divided between a metropolitan elite, which rules for its own advantage – and the rest.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 21 March 2019 at 6:30 am | 91 comments

Alex Morton: The left want to make it illegitimate to be right-wing, and the state is helping them to do it

Quangos, councils, media outlets, even the police are apparently content to apply unequal restrictions to those of us whose views they dislike.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 7 March 2019 at 6:30 am | 86 comments

Alex Morton: If Brexit is impossible, what is the point of politics?

The idea that leaving the EU simply cannot be done has emerged since the referendum – if true, it would shatter our political system.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 7 February 2019 at 6:45 am | 237 comments

Alex Morton: For voters to have more money, Government must spend less

Making Britain better post-Brexit will mean tough decisions about priorities. And that requires the Conservatives to know who their people are.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 24 January 2019 at 6:45 am | 67 comments

Alex Morton: Conservatives must be able to debate the future of their Party’s ideas as well as its future leader

Allowing everything to be dominated by questions of personalities undermines essential thinking about matters of policy.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 10 January 2019 at 6:20 am | 26 comments

Alex Morton: Whether you like her plan or not, the Prime Minister is right to prize reducing immigration over everything else

For many voters, cutting it is a litmus test of whether Brexit has been carried out or not.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 29 November 2018 at 6:30 am | 168 comments

May’s Deal 3) Alex Morton – If the Commons rejects it, here are three alternatives

Perhaps the Prime Minister will secure Parliament’s approval. But if she does not, the Conservative Party must choose a direction quickly.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 15 November 2018 at 6:20 am | 26 comments

Alex Morton: This week, Hammond’s Budget. Next year, the Spending Review. It must focus on gaining more growth.

The Treasury should not simply accept the growth figures given by the OBR, but seek to raise them.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 1 November 2018 at 6:20 am

Alex Morton: To restore purpose, legislate for England

It was once said that the secret of Thatcher’s success was moving steadily on multiple fronts so that her enemies did not know where to focus their attention.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 18 October 2018 at 6:30 am | 18 comments

Alex Morton: As she prepares to shape her own spending review, May’s influence could last much longer than you expect

Her domestic policy impact could stretch for some years beyond her premiership – especially given the briefing yesterday of “an end to austerity”.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 4 October 2018 at 6:30 am | 26 comments

Alex Morton: A Commons with no majority – so no radical Conservative measures? You’ve forgotten about EVEL.

In England, the Tories have a majority of nearly 60 over all the other parties. So bring on new grammar schools – and much else.

Columnists, Highlights | By Alex Morton | 20 September 2018 at 6:30 am | 30 comments

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