A budget for the marginals: 1) No diversion from cutting the deficit
The current enthusiasm for income tax cuts is in danger of getting out of hand.
Tim Montgomerie and Stephan Shakespeare: Welcome to The Good Right
Our forthcoming book will lay out a simple formula to allow conservatism to dominate politics once again.
The ConservativeHome spring conference will take place on May 24
That’s two days after the European and local elections.
Coming this autumn: the ConservativeHome manifesto
The trinity on our masthead – Homes, Jobs and Savings – will be at the heart of the project.
“Politics” may not have popular appeal, but issues do
Finally, the parties are beginning to change the way they start conversations with potential voters.
Miles Gibson: Local consent for garden cities is essential – but how?
This year’s Wolfson Economics Prize seeks an answer to a sticky, essential question.
Peter Franklin: We need a planning system that actually plans
The system should be shaped by residents, small-scale developers and practitioners of good design – not lawyers, consultants and the big developers.
The polling trends bring bad news for Miliband, too
Crunch the numbers from the last year, and Labour’s lead is going down, down, down.
Ruth Porter: The importance of building more homes
Housing isn’t just about somewhere to put people, it’s a deeper question about how you build a society of people who feel they have a stake and are attached to it.
CCHQ needs a Communities Department
Which requires stable funding – an equivalent to the Conservative Foundation.
We must always resist that most pernicious temptation: losing faith in the people
To win, we must be willing to question our ideas and our arguments – but we must always trust the electorate.
Let’s turn the Party into a network of local campaigning alliances
If groups of Tory MPs want to pledge sometimes to defy the Whip, that’s all to the good.
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.
Labour’s poll lead slides and slides
Even Miliband supporters are starting to fret about his shrinking advantage.
Robert Halfon MP: New policies for Popular Conservatism 4) Utility Bills
We know that a price freeze will push up prices and curtail investment. So here are three ways that the Conservatives can tackle the problem of rapidly rising bills.