Emergency proxies and postal votes: how the Government intends to ensure the local elections go ahead in May
As Wales and Scotland prepare to potentially delay them again, no such provisions are being made for England.
If the Government won’t force the Tory shires to build more houses, perhaps it should bribe them instead
It’s time to stop pretending there is any way to solve the shortage without building in the South and face up to what it will take to get that done.
Jenrick, King of Liverpool?
Max Caller, the inspector who brought change to Tower Hamlets, has been sent in to the city. The Government could take control.
Covid. There’s nothing wrong with supplementing rules with advice.
We’ve been critical of Johnson over aspects of virus policy, but there’s sense in his appeal for “a Merry Little Christmas”
Down with equality, up with opportunity
The test of Truss’s big speech today on fairness will be whether it opens up a path to reforming Labour’s Equality Act.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Starmer touches on a sore point about Cummings
The Prime Minister was obliged to listen to some advice from Wellingborough Conservative Party: “Say the first thing that comes into your head.”
Johnson’s Brexit journalism and Brexit politics are of a piece: in both he thrives by infuriating the Establishment
Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.
Why is Williamson fighting so hard to prevent schools breaking up early for Christmas?
The last week of term is scarcely critical. Is he trying to avoid letting Greenwich set a precedent – or just squaring off with the unions?
Why Conservative backbench resistance to the Government’s Covid strategy may be fading away
Five reasons why Hancock’s announcement of tougher restrictions yesterday met less resistance than might have been expected.
The biggest decision has already been taken. We have left the EU. So let’s treat whatever comes next as an opportunity.
If no good deal comes and No Deal happens, the option of a return to EU membership is no longer on the table.
The real deadline for the Brexit trade talks is December 31
But unless we are viewing a conjuring trick both from our own Government and the EU, extra time looks unlikely to unlock agreement.
Year One of Johnson’s Government. Are Conservative MPs ready to back unpopular measures in Year Two – and afterwards?
This generation of Tory MPs is less reflexively obedient, wasn’t prepared for Covid – and isn’t ready for a No Deal Brexit, if it happens.
Ambitious, energetic, but quiet on the culture wars – a year on from Johnson’s “stonking” majority, what have we learned?
From managing the pandemic, to trying to spark a green industrial revolution, the Prime Minister has taken on an enormous number of projects.
Does cross-party support for the Mali mission signal a new consensus on deploying troops overseas?
British regular soldiers will be on the ground in a new theatre for the first time since Iraq – and Labour are fully on board.
ConservativeHome presents ‘The North’s Economic Recovery – an evening with the NRG’
Our next live online event features Jake Berry, Dehenna Davison and John Stevenson, leading lights of the Northern Research Group.