Highlights

Joseph Henson and Alex Burghart: Breaking out of the bottom – how we can help people out of poverty

We must slay the modern five giants: worklessness, family breakdown, educational failure, addiction and serious personal debt.

Popular support for capitalism can’t be taken for granted

Ultimately, the fight for free markets comes down to emotion not economics, the heart not the wallet.

Final four to face open caucus in Dudley South

Two councillors, a physiotherapist and a pharmacist square off to succeed Chris Kelly.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour and the Conservatives are still within a point of each other in this week’s poll

Ed Miliband is the only party leader who is less popular among swing voters than among the electorate as a whole.

The knives are out for UKIP’s O’Flynn

The party’s Economy spokesman is under attack – and the ‘People’s Army’ are well-practiced in infighting.

Cameron says that too many politicians have offered “easy answers”. True. So where are the hard ones?

As next May draws nearer, no political party is yet facing up to the scale of challenge of deficit reduction.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Labour’s bungled City regulation helped cause the Great Recession. Here’s how we’re putting it right.

We need a system that will protect savers and the taxpayer without undermining the free markets on which Britain’s prosperity depends.

Cllr Chris Whitehouse: Helen Grant should say plainly that the FA’s conduct has been unacceptable

Greg Dyke’s career in football risks ending as ingloriously as it did at the BBC. John Whittingdale and his Select Committee should launch an enquiry.

A hung Parliament. Coalition…or Confidence and Supply?

There are good reasons why the latter is more likely.

Mark Field MP: Our immigration policy on overseas students is harming British interests

When high-flying education consumers turn their backs on the British offering, the damage goes way beyond the loss of income from the individual student.