Robert Halfon MP: Hospital parking charges are a stealth tax on the sick and vulnerable
Some hospitals charge as much as £72 a day. This has to stop – and it can do, if the NHS wasted less on “branded” drugs.
Chloe Smith MP: Young people are disengaged from voting – but not from politics
Politics must adapt to new ways, and fast. In my view it is an obvious and necessary reform to move voting online.
Francis Maude MP: How we saved almost £850 for each working household last year
I’ve set out our ambition to have the best digital government offering in the G7 by the time of the next election. We are well on the way to meeting that.
Lord Ashcroft: Labour lead by four points in my latest national poll
The Conservatives lead on the economy – but that doesn’t yet necessarily translate into voting for them.
Mohammed Amin: My take on “Trojan Horse”
The Ofsted reports are yet to be released, but here are my thoughts so far.
Chloe Smith MP: Why I want politics in our country to work for Generation Y
The first piece of a four-part series on Britain, young people, voting, democracy, engagement – and the Conservative Party.
Britain should threaten to boycott the Qatar World Cup
David Cameron must take a moral lead and assemble a coalition demanding the reform of FIFA’s rotten core.
Damian Green MP: The lesson of Newark is Don’t Ape UKIP
For the first time in years, young women with push chairs were happy to stop and talk to someone wearing a blue rosette, and even to take balloons for the children.
Andrew Allison: This tax on plastic bags is gesture politics at its worst
There is far more plastic in a takeaway spoon or cup. Are we going to start taxing them next? How about other single use items?
Jessica Lee MP: Extending the criminal law to cover emotional abuse is essential to protect children
The Queen’s Speech included a long overdue change to the law.
Ed Staite: Reagan’s great speech about D-Day – and why we need an equivalent today that confronts Putin
Wwill someone step forward with courage, and use the D-Day commemorations to reiterate the western call for freedom and democracy?
Mel Stride MP: Post Newark – how to deal with UKIP
We should point up that UKIP’s electoral appeal to Left and Right is inconsistent and undeliverable – a ‘have your cake and eat it’ brand of politics.
Jaber Jabbour: Is it racist to give Europeans open-door immigration rights?
Britain’s immigration system should be based on migrants’ merit, not their nationality.
Bob Blackman MP: The plain packaging of cigarettes will protect the health of young people
What is not Conservative is the extreme and antique nineteenth century liberal position that demands no interference with the claimed “freedom” of companies.
Fiyaz Mughal: Trends in anti-Muslim hatred
We cannot continue to have extremists from different camps play off each other with innocent citizens caught in the middle of their madness.