A third of Tory members back Afriyie’s EU referendum plan
And over half want a vote before David Cameron’s preferred date of 2017
The best way to help poorer workers is to cut their tax bill
There’s a case for tax incentives for firms to encourage them to pay the Living Wage. But that’s no substitute for focusing tax reductions on the worse-off.
Comments Policy (revisited)
If Party loyalists are unwilling to argue back against, say, UKIP supporters, then that is telling Number 10 and CCHQ something that they need to know.
The Johnson manifesto
Jo’s, that is – not Boris’s. The Head of the Policy Unit will have a big hand in the plan for the 2015 election to be confirmed today.
Under one in five Conservative members back John Major’s energy windfall tax
And there’s even less joy for Ed Miliband over his proposed price freeze
A month of the ConservativeHome redesign
Whether you like the overhaul or loathe it, it is doing the job it was meant to do.
Nearly four out of five Tory members want Mitchell back in the Cabinet
That’s 58 per cent before the next election and 20 per cent after it.
Cameron’s 2014 nightmare
An NHS crisis. Romanians and Bulgarians. Farage on tour. UKIP top the Euro polls. And then…aaarrrgggh…AAARRGGH!
Bath selection won by Ben Howlett
Former Conservative Future Chairman wins open primary
The problem with HS2
If the rationale for a plan keeps changing – and figures and calculations with it – voters should smell a rat.
Ten questions about Osborne’s Islamic finance plan
Conservative MPs asked searching questions about a Sukuk issue in opposition. Are the answers any clearer now they are in Government?
LISTEN: “We knew that Dad hadn’t said these things, but there was no way we could prove it.”
Hannah Mitchell, Andrew Mitchell’s daughter, describes the family’s experience of living through “Plebgate”
Why is Downing Street floating BBC reform now?
How the BBC is governed and regulated could scarcely be more important, given its dominance of news consumption. But where’s the Commons majority for radical change?
A day to acknowledge the good work of George Osborne
Views of the Chancellor tend to be black-and-white. The truth is more nuanced – but he has consistently been on the right side of the big arguments in government.
The best and the worst of John Major
The latter’s ordinariness was an electoral asset in 1992. But he is not, as Margaret Thatcher was, strategically minded.