Matthew Barrett: Don’t be so eager to scrap the Lords, Conservative MPs. We may need it one day to check Labour tyranny.
What a farce it would be if, in attempting to secure Brexit, we booted out one of the institutions that makes us exceptional.
Matthew Barrett: Liberty, not democracy, is the real conservative watchword
Are the fundamental tenets of freedom – that of association, expression, and worship – being maintained to their fullest extent? Some would say not.
Matthew Barrett: Fifty years on, it’s time to tear up Greater London.
It is a relic of an out-of-date fashion for the big and artificial rather than the small, local and rooted.
Matthew Barrett: It’s time to take the agitprop out of the BBC
We shouldn’t have to suffer left-wing comedians using television appearances to deliver political broadcasts.
Chris Huhne moves to top of Yellow B**tards League table
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter It's the conference season, and the annual gathering of Lib Dems gave senior Libs… Read more »
Ed Miliband to open up Labour leadership elections to the public?
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Will Ed Miliband open up Labour's leadership elections to the public? Not quite. Mr Miliband has… Read more »
Business leaders are mobilised in favour of the Government’s planning reforms
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter We featured on our front page this morning two stories about the Coalition's national… Read more »
Ken Clarke tells MPs: “the criminal justice system responded very well to the totally unexpected pressure of the riots”
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Questions to Ministers of Justice were held in the Commons yesterday, the first real… Read more »
Cameron on the back foot, as Miliband focuses on growth and unemployment figures
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter As expected, Ed Miliband focused his questions on today's unemployment figures – which showed… Read more »
Chris Grayling says new unemployment figures “will reinvigorate our determination” to get the economy going again
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Unemployment figures released this morning were negative for the government. The figures show that… Read more »
Ed Miliband heckled at TUC congress
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Labour Leader Ed Miliband gave a speech to the TUC Congress this morning. He… Read more »
David Cameron “would have been a very good KGB agent”
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter David Cameron visited Russia today for talks with Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev. The talks touched… Read more »
Former City investor Chris Huhne warns Conservatives against “helping their friends in the City”
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter We made mention of this story concerning the top rate of tax on today's… Read more »
Electricity, gas and petrol prices outstrip the NHS, unemployment, cuts, crime, and tuition fees, as voters’ top concern
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter The Daily Telegraph reported this morning: "The Prime Minister has been warned that government… Read more »
Parliament returns for a busy fortnight before conference season
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Just in case you hadn't heard about the Nadine Dorries-Frank Field amendment in the… Read more »