The former Immigration Minister contends that the Government should instead require employers and universities to equip British workers.
A collection of responses to today’s statement from the Centre for Policy Studies, the Adam Smith Institute, and others.
According to YouGov, the Party commands a plurality of voters only among the over 70s. As far as voting intention is concerned, the Conservative Party is literally dying on its feet.
A collection of responses to today’s statement from the Centre for Policy Studies, the Adam Smith Institute, and others.
Views from Bright Blue, Britain Remade, the Centre for Social Justice, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Conservative Environmental Network, the Institute of Economic Affairs, and others.
Far better that councils do all they can locally – raise taxes locally to deal with crime, health, education, and the rest – and leave national governments to deal with national issues.
The twenty-sixth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
A Brexit-enabled tweak to the Solvency II regulatory requirements would allow mortgage backed securities to be less capital intensive, making them more attractive to pension funds.
New rules threaten to give England a generation of houses that are uglier and less popular than those we have built historically.
Ministers need to find their voice and put a rocket under all of this, ensuring all schools are matched to a MAT (Multi-Agency Trust).
The sixteenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The UK still a country prioritises freedom. But its citizens are far more deferential to the state than their American cousins – and the language of freedom is far less ideological and far more personal.
None of Vince’s presuppositions about the project – that the technology, the economy, and the public are on side – stand up to scrutiny.
Combined with windfall taxes on both fossil fuel and renewable energy generation, Britain’s business tax regime is getting less, not more, competitive.
Maintaining the current welfare state will mean wringing even more taxation out of a shrinking working-age population – and a growing grey vote means politicians have little incentive to change course.