Matthew Lesh: The radical neoliberal programme which can revitalise the Conservatives
The Neoliberal Manifesto, a joint project between the Adam Smith Institute and 1828, champions an approach based on freedom, markets and choice.
Lord Ashcroft: PTSD-suffering military veterans show long-term benefits from working with orphaned baby rhinos
The participants in Footprints of Hope say that they would encourage other veterans with mental health and physical disabilities to apply for future programmes.
Raf Kochaj: Poland’s election is a choice between two very different types of conservatism
One party is national conservative, while the other is liberal conservative. Sadly, both are afflicted with left-wing ideas.
Grant Shapps: Thomas Cook’s collapse – and how we successfully carried out the biggest-ever repatriation operation in peacetime.
We brought home 150,000 passengers, on 746 different flights to ten airports around the country. And 94 pc flew back on their scheduled departure date.
Sarah Ingham: The proper place to call the government to account is not the courts, but the ballot box
MPs should be ever-ready to assert the rights of Parliament over the Executive. But they should not be outsourcing the voters’ job to judges.
Rupert Myers: Stewart has left the Party. But here’s why other moderates must stay, keep faith – and change it for the better.
Do not mistake the current intolerance of pro-European voices for power: it is a sign of the brittle fragility of a current leadership which is running out of options fast.
David Trimble and Roderick Crawford: The Government’s new proposals meet the EU’s original aims better than the backstop
The last has failed to meet the objectives set out in both the original negotiating guidelines and in the Northen Ireland Protocol itself.
James Frayne: To win working-class voters, Conservatives must start talking tax
Rather than demanding capitalism-is-broken remedies, I have found strong support for measures they recognise will support their employers.
Ryan Shorthouse: Brexit is seeing struggle enough. Communitarians and libertarians don’t have to be in conflict.
Interdependence and independence need each other, and the Conservative Party should stand for both.
David Shiels: What now are the chances of unstopping the backstop?
The Irish Government have failed to grasp the extent to which unionist concerns would be listened in London.
Lord Ashcroft: What my new poll of 8000 voters tells us about the country, the parties – and Brexit
It sets the scene as the Conservative Conference opens by showing what the voters themselves make of the unfolding drama.
Nick de Bois: Conservatives must not fall into Labour’s trap on the four-day week
We should counter their crude and authoritarian plan proposals with a progressive plan for flexible working which better suits the modern workforce.
Andrew Sharpe: Progressive Conservative Reformers 5) We must mine our history to inform our present and dominate our future
If we lack the self-confidence to defend our achievements, how do we seriously expect to be able take the fight to our opponents?
Sam Bowman: How to revitalise towns
Politics should work with market signals, not against them – but that doesn’t have to mean giving up on towns or the people who live in them.
Stephen Laws: Why the Supreme Court ruling is a recipe for constitutional conflict
The Speaker has manipulated of the rules for a political objective, but the Government has been denied the opportunity to respond proportionately in kind.