Rosalind Beck: Why the CPS and Onward plans for housing sales to private tenants are wrong
If anti-private landlord agendas are allowed to shape Government policy, things will only get worse for them and for their tenants alike.
Peter Lilley: The Government’s Chequers plan is the Single Market by another name
We should not be tied to rules that often apply extreme versions of the precautionary principle that throttle new developments.
Neil Shastri-Hurst: McCain in America, Mercer here in Britain. It’s time for soldier-statesmen to take the lead.
These men and women offer a solution to a nation and a wider world crying out for leadership. They truly get the concepts of duty, service, and nationhood.
David Mytton: So you want more employee company ownership? The answer seems to be less government intervention – not more.
Labour’s plan to force that outcome is fundamentally flawed. When there is a transfer of wealth forced by central government, how would investor confidence be affected?
John Hayes: Talking of threats to the Belfast Agreement, here’s another – this abortion bill to be considered next week
The British Government has repeatedly and recently confirmed that abortion law has long been a devolved matter, and it should stay that way.
Josephine Hemmens: Transgender discrimination is wrong. But righting it mustn’t put people born as women in danger.
This process is clearly open to abuse from violent males, many of whom will go to any lengths to reach their victims.
John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 3) Purge the system of kleptocrats, dirty money and fake news
In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP argues for drastic action to rebuild legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
Yesterday’s results show that free schools are working. Now Conservatives must back them fully once again.
I was glad to see the Prime Minister and the Education Secretary doing so recently – particularly now that Rayner is clear she will scrap the programme.
Ronel Lehmann: Gainful employment should be the ultimate measure of university success
Great effort goes to attract the best school-leavers. If only the same energy went into ensuring that their graduate alumni are actually prepared for the world of work.
John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 2) How to help give younger people a fair deal
In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP sets out plans on tax, housing deficits and debt to help achieve inter-generational justice.
James Croft: It’s time to invest in the education of high-performing children – and those who have the potential to join them
We recommend the endowment of a independent research outfit similar to that what works to find how to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children.
Stewart Jackson: Mendacity, duplicity, subterfuge and misjudgement. How I saw an establishment coup wreck a clean Brexit.
Number Ten has been desperate from the start that we must remain in the Customs Union – and endure a kind of semi-skimmed faux Brexit.
John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 1) A market designed for the many, not the few
In the first of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP looks at how to ensure that the customer, not the corporation, is king.
Bob Blackman: The Treasury must settle its debt of honour with the Equitable Life victims
£2.6 billion of the sum the government accepted as the compensation owed has still not been paid.
Robert Colvile: The boost to home ownership that would come from Help to Own – and the work we’ve been doing on it
Alex Morton and the rest of our research team have spent weeks crunching the numbers to ensure that they stack up