Brandon Lewis: We need to take action now to defend our shoreline from coastal erosion
Brandon Lewis was until last month leader of Brentwood Borough Council and is the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Great… Read more »
Rupert Matthews: Examining our opponents’ European policies – the Liberal Democrats
Rupert Matthews is one of the MEP candidates for the Conservative Party in the East Midlands Region and a freelance… Read more »
Philip Dunne MP: There’s nothing invincible about Vince
Philip Dunne is MP for Ludlow, winning the seat from the Liberal Democrats in May 2005. In this Platform article… Read more »
Carl Thomson: How myths and half-truths led to one of post-war Europe’s bloodiest conflicts
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative candidate for Glasgow East at… Read more »
Glyn Chambers: A response to Niall Ferguson’s “trilemma” – the Conservative narrative on the economic crisis can embrace a “quinfecta” of competition, monetarism, privatisation, capitalism and law and order
Glyn Chambers works for CRA International, an economics consultancy, and is Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Vauxhall At a lecture to… Read more »
Andrew Murrison: As NATO celebrates its 60th birthday, we must put the brakes on the creeping EU military identity
Dr Andrew Murrison MP is a Shadow Defence Minister. His 18-year career in the Royal Navy included service with Standing… Read more »
John Leonard: We don’t need fewer MPs – but we do have to wrestle control of the political system away from them
John Leonard, an IT consultant, argues here that those wanting to reduce the size of the House of Commons will… Read more »
Lorraine Mullally: Caroline Flint’s admission of ignorance about the Lisbon Treaty makes the need for a referendum all the more urgent
Lorraine Mullally is Director of Open Europe and argues here that the Europe Minister's admission that she has not bothered… Read more »
Martin Le Jeune: The Conservatives should trim the BBC and make it concentrate on areas that the market fails to offer
Martin Le Jeune is a former head of public affairs for Sky and is author of To inform, educate and… Read more »
John Redwood MP: The myth of the G20 was that we needed the leaders to agree to do the same thing to address the very different crises in their respective countries
John Redwood has been MP for Wokingham since 1987 and was invited by David Cameron to chair the Conservative Party's… Read more »
Nigel Fletcher: David Cameron got a far better reception from President Obama than Margaret Thatcher did from Jimmy Carter when she was Opposition Leader in 1977
Nigel Fletcher is Director of the recently formed Opposition Studies Forum. He is a councillor in the London Borough of… Read more »
Edward Leigh MP: Our bishops should talk more about God than global warming
Edward Leigh has been MP for Gainsborough since 1983, is chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and founded the Cornerstone… Read more »
Deborah Thomas: Let us say proudly, “Yes, we will be a do nothing party, if the only alternative is to make things worse”
Deborah Thomas is prospective parliamentary candidate for Twickenham, where she is challenging the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, and… Read more »
Andrew Haldenby: Market forces will make us a healthier nation
Andrew Haldenby is director of the think-tank Reform and co-author of Fit for Recovery, a report it is publishing today… Read more »
Tim Loughton MP: The ContactPoint child protection database must be scrapped
Tim Loughton has been Shadow Minister for Children and Young People since 2003. This week the Times and Telegraph have… Read more »