
Henry Hill: Frost’s appointment shows the Government is not resigned to the Northern Ireland Protocol
His extension of grace periods only makes sense as part of a strategy aimed at securing meaningful concessions to assuage unionist concerns.
His extension of grace periods only makes sense as part of a strategy aimed at securing meaningful concessions to assuage unionist concerns.
It is a curiosity of French politics that in the reverse of the British pattern, right-wing scandals have to do with money while left-wing ones are about sex.
Debates around this issue are conducted as if it were politicians’ own money at stake rather than taxpayers’.
One of the most striking developments was Mordaunt criticising the use of the word ‘woman’ in the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill.
It’s a dangerous game, relying solely on polling to judge the state of public opinion: it never tells the full story.
Conservative messaging implies an implicit belief that there are no major state functions ripe for reform in any fiscal repair.
Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is: it’s all about economic credibility, stupid. Because come 2024, it certainly will be.
We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.
Plus: Have you got your popcorn ready for Salmond’s appearance before a committee of the Scottish Parliament this lunchtime?
As Alex Salmond’s evidence is censored again, now the reputation of Scotland’s prosecutors is dragged into the mire.
One would suspect that the Government’s primary objective will be to stabilise and bed down the new relationship with Brussels.
This government should not be afraid to fix the rules that are currently breaking our country’s housing market.
It’s disgraceful that somewhere between 15 and 20 per cent of our young people may be “functionally illiterate” when they leave school.
It’s not surprising that I do things differently, since I came to the role from a business background, rather than via the world of politics.
It’s welcome that we’re investing much more in services. But we need to tackle the causes too.