Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.
The instinct of our readers is that the justification of development spending is not that it will have benefits for Britain, but that it is good in itself.
Aid reform based on ‘efficiency’ is a smokescreen. So a different narrative and approach is needed.
He spoke of his friend, a “five-foot bundle of old-fashioned Yorkshire common sense.”
They worked together to found the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Syria, and he writes of his “fearless friend” in today’s Daily Telegraph.
The Commonwealth Development Corporation is now practically defunct. We need an organisation that will properly represent British interests abroad.
Ryan Bourne, Cllr Sir Merrick Cockell, Andrew Lilico, Cllr Binita Mehta, Andrew Mitchell MP and others give their take on Osborne’s latest mini-Budget.
…he would be back in the Cabinet. His decision to do so set the scene for a personal tragedy.
A series of failures or outright abuses strike at the trust which was once a hardwired Conservative value.
The man with a track record of shaking up the status quo is Martin Callanan.
Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.
We have deep historic ties to a future continental leader and one of the fastest-emerging global economies.