Richard Short: Student loans – change the title, change the narrative

We need to look at the write-off threshold more than the repayment threshold or bottom line fees to make a difference that young graduates can relate to.

Richard Short: There is a way to lift the pay cap – without caving in to Labour’s plan and putting jobs at risk

We should look again at appreciating the added value that the public sector brings to the wealth of the economy – and lift the cap for low earners.

Richard Short: What I learnt from my campaigning tour of the constituencies

It is worth looking at where we were successful, and what went right, in the hope we can replicate that, and secure better success at the next general election.

Richard Short: Labour’s Garden Tax is ready to savage the homes and gardens of ordinary working people

A measure apparently intended to target the well-off would instead hit former council house owners, pensioners and the vulnerable.

Richard Short: So you want flexible immigration controls that work? Go for the Manx option.

Its permit system places the island’s residents at the centre of policy – and can be tightened up, just as just it was in 2009, if the economy is squeezed.

Richard Short: We Tories must renew our efforts to win the industrial north

Corbyn might lock Labour out of power at Westminster, but Momentum could still end up wielding real power in local government.

Richard Short: Never give up on the Conservative coalfield challenge

Spencer Pitfield’s by-election candidacy in Sheffield and my own experience in Leigh help demonstrate that nowhere should be out of bounds for us.