Building on May’s legacy will mean grinding, attritional work – which the hard left and extremist parties are neither interested in nor capable of doing.
The pundits have the UK’s lost output at up to 30 per cent of GDP: personally, I anticipate it to be less, and closer to 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?
Ever since the EU referendum, there’s been renewed focus on how to help poorer places. Helpfully there is decades of evidence about what does and doesn’t work.
Unbridled worship of the market, ahead of principle, responsibility and loyalty, would be a betrayal of our Party’s history.
The new Chancellor should stick to the basics of cutting taxes, spending more on education and rebalancing growth outside of London.
By refusing to consider the option of leaving without a deal, Conservative Ministers are essentially admitting defeat. And we deserve better than a defeatist political class.
At the moment, we are treading water and appear to be relying on popular support for Brexit, and the threat of Corbyn, to keep us in office.
The “Common Rulebook” approach is an ostacle to signing up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
They propose a bespoke agreement that would permit mutual market access, with a Solvency II equivalence outcome built into it.
Regional allies will be reassured by the President’s presence as White House watchers try to see what ‘America First’ means overseas.
A president who is quick to attack friends and allies needs to bring other world leaders into his coalition.
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
It’s time that we all stood shoulder to shoulder together, and kept ourselves safe from outside interference.