We are encouraging people to do more exercise. We are investing millions in schemes to boost cycling and walking, which helps improve air quality in built-up areas.
The campaign feels better run, including online. People massively prefer Boris Johnson to Corbyn. The question is whether it is enough
I am arguing that there is some limited space for radical candour with the electorate on the difficult choices facing the country in the 2020s.
Plus: The ups and downs of Johnson’s broadcast. Poor A & figures. Conservative and Labour no shows. And: what to give a woman at Christmas.
Also: Prime Minister mocked over claims Ulster goods won’t face checks; and he takes a tough line on Scottish independence as Corbyn swithers.
His attitude ought to worry us. I mean that literally. All these men believed that the end justified the means.
It stretches credulity to just assume that rent-seeking or uncompetitive markets account for all British top wealth.
Politicians are so uncomfortable talking seriously about our international role and relationships that instead we constantly engage in proxy battles.
Economic competence has been the cornerstone of the Conservative appeal. Remove that cornerstone and the entire structure becomes fragile.
Plus: Labour moves to the Left, the Conservatives to the Right – and the latter has a bad week.
Analysis of current polls shows the Party picking up nine or ten seats; my own sources suggest it will be more like six.
The PSOE hoped to reunite the Left. Instead, rising tensions have fuelled extreme parties.
“Now I want a nice clean game from all of you” – so said Madam Hooch in Harry Potter. The reality is, it’s not going to happen.
Our pledge has been to look first to these former industrial sites, to reclaim them and clean them up, when developers come knocking on the door.
However, I do fear that in certain areas it hands too much power to a regulator which is just as prone to mistakes as those it supervises.