Charlie Elphicke: It’s time to set the mortgage prisoners free

When selling these books the Treasury should make sure there are protections so that borrowers do not lose out.

Charlie Elphicke: It’s time to check the use of taxpayers’ money before it’s spent – not afterwards

We need a powerful Parliamentary spending watchdog, a Budget Committee, to stop hard-earned public cash being wasted.

Charlie Elphicke: The Cabinet must decide today to trigger no deal preparations in full

This is what we have been doing at the Dover front line – working hard on preparations for disruption. We are making sure that we stand ready.

Charlie Elphicke: The customs debate is pointless if we aren’t ready with a new system. Government is failing and must succeed.

When I asked freight experts at a Treasury Select Committee hearing if we still had enough time, they said: “You would have to get a hell of a wiggle on.”

Charlie Elphicke: Momentum threatens to take London back to the past

Red Ted Knight and the then Militant Tendency were a disaster for Lambeth. The hard left has returned – new bottles, yet very much the nastiest of old wine.

Charlie Elphicke: How to ensure the UK is ready to become a powerhouse of global trade

First we must ensure that we fully regain control of trade policy from Brussels. Then we must ensure we put those new powers to their fullest use.

Charlie Elphicke: Keeping order at the border – to prepare for a smooth Brexit

Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.

Charlie Elphicke: Ensuring we are Ready on Day One for any Brexit scenario is the smart thing to do

Why wouldn’t we want to have world class customs systems, cutting edge digital border controls and resilient road infrastructure?

Charlie Elphicke: How to get Ready on Day One for Brexit – deal or no deal

The Prime Minister is right to be optimistic about our future relationship with the EU, but we must be ready for every eventuality.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to trade with the world

The final article in the author’s five-piece series on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One for lower, fairer, simpler taxes to boost jobs and growth

The fourth article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to keep the Common Travel Area and avoid a hard border in Ireland

The third article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to take back control of immigration

The second article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to meet the Brexit Borders Challenge

The first article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Charlie Elphicke: I helped beat the hard left in the 1990s. We can do so again by putting Compassionate Conservatism first.

Every Tory I know is in politics to help the less fortunate, but we must get better at telling voters that.