Iain Dale: Frost’s address on Brexit is just as important as were Thatcher’s words at Bruges
Plus: Where was the Ministers yesterday making the case for the Government’s new immigration policy? And: my advice to Carlaw.
Chris Bullivant: If free market and social conservatives find common ground, they could be unstoppable
The schism between between Tory Eurosceptics and Europhiles has been overcome; now another divide must be healed.
Introducing ConservativeHome’s new Deputy Editor: Charlotte Gill
She will be familiar to many readers as a journalist and commentator who has been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Spectator and elsewhere.
Andrew Haldenby: Even after austerity, shocking amounts of money are wasted by underperforming state bodies
Voters are more open to higher spending, but if they pay higher taxes for services that don’t improve then they won’t be happy.
George Trefgarne: The Prime Minister is hovering in a holding pattern above Heathrow
Johnson and Shapps may lose a legal case over the expansion plan, and then decide whether or not to go to their favourite place – the Supreme Court.
The Johnson adviser with the most power
No, not you-know-who, but David Frost, Johnson’s Europe adviser. When was the last time a SpAd led for the Government with a major speech?
Nadhim Zahawi: In defence of Cummings. He’s focused on delivering for those we serve. Isn’t that for the best?
We’ve been through all this before with the Gove education reforms – which he co-worked on and which have helped to improve lives.
Interview. Bailey commits to reopening all 38 police stations that have closed under Khan.
“So there’s no doubt, we are the underdog. But the point is, the Mayor’s record is so terrible it’s allowed us an opportunity.”
Ryan Bourne: The real Budget question on borrowing is not “could we?” but “should we?”
My answer would be “maybe, provided the spending or tax cuts significantly improved our growth potential.”
Daniel Hannan: Alarmism, doom-mongering, panic – and the coronavirus. We are nowhere near a 1919-style catastrophe.
Nothing I have written should be taken as a suggestion that we drop our guard or stop taking precautions. But, assuming we do that, there is no reason to panic. Cheer up.
James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.
The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.
Beware the Eye of Johnson
It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.
Stephen Booth: Checks in the Irish Sea. What they are, why the UK and EU disgree about them – and how they could wreck the talks
For the Protocol to work over the long-term, broad-based political consent for it must be gained then retained.
Luke de Pulford: Johnson must not quit the fight against modern slavery
Just because it was a focus for Theresa May does not mean it should pass into memory along with her premiership.
Whacking the BBC. Change is coming – whether the Corporation likes it or not.
This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.