Priti Patel MP: We should be proud of the tough new measures in the Immigration Bill
As a matter of priority, extensions to the transitional controls on Romanian and Bulgarian need to be investigated. In ten weeks time, these will expire.
Cutting the spare room subsidy is getting thousands into work
An estimated 71,000 of the 660,000 affected nationally by the spare room subsidy cut have already come off benefits altogether and found work
What kind of tax cut is most likely to help win Bolton West?
The thinking aloud of the Policy Board members about tax thresholds highlights a choice that the Party may have to make before 2015.
Henry Smith MP: We’re right to seek to curb EU benefit tourism
The Commission’s claims are misleading because in many cases claims made by foreign migrants are impossible to audit.
Lord Lexden: 50 years ago today, Lord Home became Prime Minister
How a peer reached 10 Downing Street for the last time, after the drama of the 1963 Conservative Party Conference
The Sun turns up the heat on green taxes
With a mass petition calling for tax cuts to control the cost of living, how long will the Government delay?
Thomas Tugendhat: Our troops should be able to focus on the enemy, not worry about human rights laws back home
Commanders, not judges, should be in control on the battlefield.
Does Cameron really want rid of Jeremy Browne?
Were the next election to produce a hung Parliament, Browne would surely urge the formation of a second blue-yellow coalition.
Iain Dale’s Friday Diary: Ed Miliband should apologise to Andrew Mitchell
Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.
Adrian Hilton: The scandalous story of Sussex Police’s harassment of Tim Loughton
A constituent claimed that ‘unkempt’ was a racist expression. And so the East Worthing and Shoreham MP was questioned under caution.
Robert Halfon MP: New policies for Popular Conservatism 5) Cost of Living
The Right are great at intellectualising ideas, whereas the Left are better at campaigning. We need to turn our work into campaigns.
Huzzah, Gov.uk is one today! But it’s still got some growing up to do
If some of the growing pains can be tranquilised, the Government’s digital agenda could become one of its most significant legacies.
How Macmillan built 300,000 houses a year
There are some lessons in this for the modern day. Macmillan showed that the ruthless application of political will could achieve a surprising amount.
Nick Pickles: If you love music, Spotify is a brilliant and troubling invention
On the one hand, you have an incredible platform. On the other, the fear that you are helping perpetuate a group of old, close-minded record labels.
Mark Field MP: The case against the Mansion Tax
We might levy taxes on non-resident, non-British owners of property. But a crude mansion tax is not the solution to the South-Eastern property market problem.