Mark Prisk MP: The construction industry needs action not words
Mark Prisk is MP for Hertford and Stortford and the shadow minister for construction in the Conservative frontbench Business and… Read more »
Mike Penning: Why I am unconvinced by the proposed ban on “point of sale” tobacco advertising
Mike Penning is MP for Hemel Hempstead and a shadow health minister. Here he argues that the Government’s latest proposals… Read more »
Neil Wilson: Towards a better definition of Unionism
Neil Wilson is the Chairman of Merseyside Conservative Future and grew up in County Down. He argues that the UUP/Conservative… Read more »
Steve Barclay: Financial Regulation – enforcement not new policy should be the way forward
Steve Barclay is the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North East Cambridgeshire and has worked for over a decade in the… Read more »
Imtiaz Ameen: It was not in my name that Geert Wilders was refused entry into the UK
Amtiaz Ameen was Conservative candidate for Blackburn at the 2005 general election, is a former councillor in Dewsbury and writes… Read more »
Nick de Bois: Why Labour’s employment legislation means even cancer patients are made to worry unnecessarily about redundancy
Nick de Bois is the parliamentary candidate for Enfield North, the seat he also fought in 2001 and 2005. Father… Read more »
Stephen Greenhalgh and John Moss: Proposals for radical reform of social housing
Stephen Greenhalgh is leader of Hammersmith and Fulham council and heads up the Conservative Councils Innovation Unit, which is tasked… Read more »
Michael Fallon MP: The banks failed. The FSA failed. Gordon Brown failed.
Michael Fallon MP is Deputy Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee. They said they were sorry, deeply sorry. One by… Read more »
Howard Flight: China and the economic crisis
Howard Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Over… Read more »
Alistair Thompson: Stop blaming capitalism for our woes
Alistair Thompson is a councillor in Portsmouth and part of the City Seats Initiative in West Bromwich. He also runs… Read more »
Tim Loughton MP: Has Child Protection become more about protecting the system than protecting vulnerable children?
Tim Loughton is MP for East Worthing & Shoreham and Shadow Minister for Children. This week we published an update… Read more »
Brooks Newmark MP: Central African Republic – A forgotten crisis
Brooks Newmark has been Conservative MP for Braintree since 2005 and is an Opposition whip. He writes here about the… Read more »
Marc Glendening: Denis MacShane outs the anti-EU xenophobes in the closet
Marc Glendening, campaign director of the Democracy Movement, accuses former Europe minister Denis MacShane of engaging in ‘neo-McCarthyite’ smear tactics… Read more »
Whose opinions do you want to read on Platform?
Whose opinions would you like to be reading more of on ConservativeHome’s Platform?Are there particular political figures or activists you’d… Read more »
Mats Persson: Exposing the spiralling cost of EU regulations
Mats Persson is Research Director at Open Europe and author of its latest piece of research, Out of Control: Measuring… Read more »