James Mawdsley: We need a PM with the courage to institute a flat tax
James Mawdsley, former Conservative parliamentary candidate, author of the book The Heart Must Break about fighting for democracy in Burma,… Read more »
Nick Herbert MP: We need a genuine zero tolerance of knife crime
Nick Herbert, MP for Arundel & South Downs and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, sets out the Conservative position… Read more »
Oberon Houston: The time for action on fuel duty was 2005
Oberon Houston is currently in charge of developing one of the most prospective oil provinces in the world, West Africa,… Read more »
Stephen O’Brien MP: The latest NHS IT shambles
Stephen O’Brien, MP for Eddisbury and Shadow Minister for Health, questions the future of the supercomputer programme in light of… Read more »
Jonathan M Scott: Darling, the tax-cutter? No. It’s Brown, the Sub-Prime Minister
Dr Jonathan M Scott, an enterprise educator and an entrepreneurship policy researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and author of the… Read more »
Alex Deane: In defence of Simon Cowell
Alexander Deane, author of The Great Abdication and a CentreRight contributor, reviews "Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern… Read more »
Matthew Sinclair: The years of tax and spend are over
Matt Sinclair of The TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes a Labour MP’s call for lower taxes and lower spending. First Alan Milburn… Read more »
Oliver Letwin MP: Is the battle of ideas in politics a battle about ends or a battle about means?
Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP is Chairman of the Conservative Party’s Policy Review and of the Conservative Research Department. The… Read more »
Julian Brazier MP: Compensation culture Vs Happy childhoods
Julian Brazier is MP for Canterbury and Whitstable and a Shadow Transport Minister. We hear a great deal about the… Read more »
Tim Bale: Do the Tories have a ‘Plan B’ if Labour do oust Gordon?
Tim Bale teaches politics at Sussex University and is writing a book on the Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron…. Read more »
Nick Bourne AM: Barack will prevail
Simon Burns MP has used these pages to make the case for Hillary Clinton. Iain Duncan Smith will shortly be… Read more »
Roger Gale MP: Appeasement only emboldens Iran
Roger Gale is Conservative MP for North Thanet. US President George W Bush has condemned critics of the US administration… Read more »
Philip Hammond MP: The Conservative path to lower taxes and high quality public services
Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, highlights the key themes of yesterday’s… | 27 comments
Ben Farrugia: Britain’s unseen £64 billion state
Ben Farrugia is a Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. In this Platform piece he examines the dizzying scale and… Read more »
Matthew Sinclair: One year at the TPA
Matt works at the TaxPayers’ Alliance and blogs at CentreRight.com. In this post he reflects on the TPA’s mission and… Read more »