Mark Prisk MP: Government needs radically to change the way it treats the Commons
Business as usual isn’t working. We need to realise that the Commons today is more like the US Congress of the 1980s and early 1990s – and act accordingly.
Cutting the spare room subsidy giving hope for those stuck in overcrowded homes
There are thousands in overcrowded social housing desperate to swap with those who have spare rooms.
Co-Op Bank, the generous lender which props up the Labour Party, goes into meltdown
Under new ownership, will it carry on providing cheap finance to Britain’s leading advocates of irresponsible borrowing?
Priti Patel MP: We should be proud of the tough new measures in the Immigration Bill
As a matter of priority, extensions to the transitional controls on Romanian and Bulgarian need to be investigated. In ten weeks time, these will expire.
Cutting the spare room subsidy is getting thousands into work
An estimated 71,000 of the 660,000 affected nationally by the spare room subsidy cut have already come off benefits altogether and found work
What kind of tax cut is most likely to help win Bolton West?
The thinking aloud of the Policy Board members about tax thresholds highlights a choice that the Party may have to make before 2015.
Henry Smith MP: We’re right to seek to curb EU benefit tourism
The Commission’s claims are misleading because in many cases claims made by foreign migrants are impossible to audit.
Lord Lexden: 50 years ago today, Lord Home became Prime Minister
How a peer reached 10 Downing Street for the last time, after the drama of the 1963 Conservative Party Conference
The Sun turns up the heat on green taxes
With a mass petition calling for tax cuts to control the cost of living, how long will the Government delay?
Thomas Tugendhat: Our troops should be able to focus on the enemy, not worry about human rights laws back home
Commanders, not judges, should be in control on the battlefield.
Does Cameron really want rid of Jeremy Browne?
Were the next election to produce a hung Parliament, Browne would surely urge the formation of a second blue-yellow coalition.
Iain Dale’s Friday Diary: Ed Miliband should apologise to Andrew Mitchell
Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.
Adrian Hilton: The scandalous story of Sussex Police’s harassment of Tim Loughton
A constituent claimed that ‘unkempt’ was a racist expression. And so the East Worthing and Shoreham MP was questioned under caution.
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.
Huzzah, Gov.uk is one today! But it’s still got some growing up to do
If some of the growing pains can be tranquilised, the Government’s digital agenda could become one of its most significant legacies.