Relaxation of Sunday trading will upset churchgoers, family campaigners and a good number of Tory MPs

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When the Government first flirted with the idea of relaxing Sunday trading laws my colleague… Read more »

Cameron and Clegg to hold a “mid-term review”, but will not have a second Coalition Agreement

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Financial Times this morning reports (£) the news that the two Coalition party… Read more »

Danny Alexander’s words suggest that George Osborne’s credit rating headache is getting worse

Let’s put Louise Mensch, Boris and Nigel Farage aside for a moment — the most significant political news of the… Read more »

Cameron tells Sky News: Osborne will still be Chancellor in 2015

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter There's been a lot of speculation that David Cameron might move George Osborne in the… Read more »

Tory PPS calls for bolder action from Coalition to get British economy out of “mire”

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter There was more gloomy economic news yesterday with new data suggesting that, in the words… Read more »

Memo to those one-in-five Conservative supporters who would prefer Vince Cable as Chancellor

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter There’s one finding that really stands out from this ComRes poll today, which is… Read more »

Matthew Parris speaks for Team Osborne — Why are Tory MPs so “unbelievably lily-livered and flaky”?

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Some good news for George Osborne today after yet another bruising week. S&P have… Read more »

George Osborne is here to stay — and so is austerity

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter There are lots of reasons to believe that George Osborne will remain as Chancellor…. Read more »

Is it already too late for George Osborne to force a comeback?

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Neither Tim Montgomerie nor I have given up on George Osborne as Chancellor –… Read more »

My mum should be George Osborne’s economic adviser

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Many economists didn't predicted the Great Recession we are currently enduring but I know… Read more »

Chris Grayling hits back at Left’s claims on UK’s good job news

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Pete has already blogged about the very disappointing GDP numbers and I want to… Read more »

Terrible news for George Osborne: the economy shrank by 0.7 per cent in Q2

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Sadly, it is as expected: our economy shrank for three quarters running. Although we… Read more »

Happiness measures may seem trivial, but…

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Are you happy? What makes you happy? Do you feel that your life is… Read more »

The Coalition needs more than a ‘peashooter’ in this gunfight — but can it find one?

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter It’s mornings like this when I think of a conversation I had with a… Read more »

Conservatives must champion “the consumer, the taxpayer and the entrepreneur”

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Matt Sinclair of the TaxPayers' Alliance has written a good blog over at Coffee… Read more »