Garvan Walshe: The case for supporting the Syrian Kurds – for a price
They offer the best chance to maintain influence in Syria to counter Moscow, but the question of their ongoing conflict with Turkey must be addressed.
Charlie Elphicke: How to ensure the UK is ready to become a powerhouse of global trade
First we must ensure that we fully regain control of trade policy from Brussels. Then we must ensure we put those new powers to their fullest use.
More money for the NHS? Don’t forget another big spending pressure point. More money for defence.
Brexit has transformed the context in which we plan our security. Commitments to our European neighbours and Global Britain require more money.
Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives can’t rely on Brexit to win them the next election. They need to do much more – and soon.
The reputation for competence that once covered a multitude of Tory sins has deserted the party and needs to be restored.
Alex Morton: Gove’s energy is admirable. But his new green approach seems to hold that government is good and people are bad.
The short-term plaudits of the Left and the Greens come at a long-term cost – to the Party, and to the environment too.
Education, housing, the environment: May’s campaigning priorities. And there is an NHS row. But what about the economy?
The Government had next to no living standards message at the election. It needs one now – and to explain how it fits in with those three priorities.
Henry Newman: The Brexit regulation debate pits short-term disruption against future prosperity
Even Whitehall’s fiercest advocates of the need to stay as close as possible to the EU recognise that there are risks in being a rule-taker not a rule-maker.
Benedict Rogers: Britain must honour Major’s promise that ‘Hong Kong will never have to walk alone’
China is disregarding its pledge of ‘one country, two systems’ – as a result the rule of law in the territory is under threat from growing autocracy.
Last June’s election has transformed the debate about capitalism. May must find a strategic response.
Tactical newspaper articles are necessary but insufficient. She should make a series of speeches to set out her stall and try to change the weather.
Ben Houchen: Brexit. We need Project Fearless – and it starts with freeports. Let’s kick off with one in Teesside.
Yesterday, I wrote to the Chancellor with the support of 50 of the biggest and most established businesses in the Tees Valley, to call for a pilot scheme.
Natalie Elphicke: Not since the moon landings have we built 300,000 houses a year. Here’s how that target can be met.
Right now, a whole host of things are said to be top infrastructure priorities. Yet, remarkably, housing is not among them. This needs to change.
Dan Lambeth: Why research and development tax credits work
The debate has come to symbolise much of what differentiates us from the Left: robust policy based on evidence that supports free markets, versus dogma based on statism.
Johnson’s Trump initiative. Repulsive – but Right.
The brutal reality is that Britain needs the country the President governs – and so by extension needs him too.
David Davies: Now that we’re leaving the EU, we must also quit the European Arrest Warrant
The EAW is based on the flawed presumption of judicial parity between European nations. The UK should forge a new partnership where this is actually the case.
Why are audiences breaking into applause after the new Churchill film?
He was a man of Empire – not a little Englander, but a Great Britainer. One might also say a Global Britainer, which returns one to Brexit.