Stuart Coster: The People’s Pledge’s League Table of Shame. The MPs who could wreck the Wharton EU referendum bill
Adam Afriyie is top of the list – followed by Mike Gapes, Martin Horwood, Emma Reynolds, Nigel Farage MEP…and Nick Clegg.
Andrew Lilico: A conspiracy against Andrew Mitchell is more serious than one against ordinary citizens
A conspiracy by police officers to smear a Cabinet Minister so as to make him lose his job is an assault upon the state, upon democracy itself.
Christopher Howarth: The CBI’s claims are flawed. Then again, so are UKIP’s.
Some organisations tend to seek to accentuate the EU’s benefits and some its costs. Both need to up their game.
Mark Field MP: Why we need a common platform for banking
The jewel in the crown of a shared technology platform would be to make the customers’ transfer of accounts from one bank to another virtually automatic.
Alistair Burt MP: My public report from the Anonymous Demonstration
The real contrast of the evening was between the largely middle class protesters and their purposeful contemporaries pushing through them – having done a day’s work.
Matthew Elliott: Business wants a better deal from Brussels – everything else is just speculation
British Influence need to say now whether they will help Britain’s wealth creators fight for treaty change and a trading relationship with Brussels.
Lord Ashcroft: Why we need to support the bomb disposal community’s new charity
The Felix Fund does invaluable work supporting bomb disposal experts and their families.
Peter Wilding: Business for Britain’s polling suggests that 50,000 businesses would close if Britain left the EU
That equates to 1,501,040 jobs lost from those firms which said they would close.
Alok Sharma MP: A tax break which would help both businesses and individuals.
We should learn from Sweden’s example of providing a tax incentive for home building repairs or maintenance work.
Lord Flight: We need a recovery based on savings, investment and exports – not consumption
The post-2010 Government will need to take major and radical decisions and actions to get the balance of the UK economy right.
Katja Hall: We must be in the EU if we are to reform it
Eight out of ten CBI members, large and small, would vote to stay in the EU if there was a referendum
Ben Boult: How to make a British Bill of Rights work for everyone
Were the Joint Committee on Human Rights to take a key role, the differing views of those who stress human rights and Parliamentary supremacy could be reconciled.
Karen Lumley MP: The West Midlands is leading Britain in a great manufacturing revival
Last year, we became a net exporter of cars for the first time since 1976 – and exports from the region are up by almost a third.
Work: Have immigrants “taken our jobs”?
The evidence suggests little overall effect on unemployment or pay – but it’s a different story when it comes to the lowest skilled Britons.
Lord Risby: Britain is open for Islamic business
Just as the first renminbi bond issued outside China has been earmarked for Britain, so the welcome mat is now being comprehensively extended to other new potential investors in a more focused way.