Today, we launch a five-part series on the case for Brexit on ConservativeHome.
He and his wife first met in Cambridge during the early 1960s, in what for many is now an unimaginably distant era.
CCHQ’s secrecy over the London Mayoral candidate selection spits in the face of Party members.
Our readers may not be taking this entirely seriously.
The core of his plan is that councils will be forced to build. We support the Chancellor’s end and salute his courage. But the means look dicey.
Labour outwitted. Boris by-passed (for the moment). This was less an exercise of Conservative ideas than a ferociously-focused plan for winning.
What Osborne delivered was less an exercise in high-minded reform than an ingenious plan to ensure that others join the taxpayer in getting the deficit down.
Tearing up the present settlement is at odds with Party statements during the election. And the Government has enough battles to fight without picking this one.
Deficit reduction must come first. And since younger people will feel the brunt of its further reduction, he must demonstrate a sense of inter-generational fairness.
The view of London members may be sharply different from those based elsewhere. But it is hard to argue that this finding isn’t promising for the Richmond Park MP.
This budget week casts a spotlight on the Chancellor’s responsibility to hold the Conservatives together before, during and after the coming EU referendum.
If……….
You may want less migration. You may want more. But either way, we would have more control – instead of a policy that has already failed.