Our modern way of life is fundamentally unsupportive of returning soldiers.
We will establish, where Councils are unable or unwilling to do so, Regional Adoption Agencies to match children with the right family for them more quickly.
For a more equal society we need stronger families.
Despite his passion for the possibilities opened up by new technology, his biggest idea is an old one: the traditional family.
Plus: The OBR isn’t needed to audit manifestos. The SNP’s sleight-of-hand on austerity. A lack of debate on healthcare. And: don’t make promises you can’t keep.
It is quite right for us to preach the virtues of personal responsibility, but only if we foster the conditions within which virtue is nurtured.
Professor Alan Smithers said that there was a real risk of the move towards school-based training being reversed.
The socialist assumption is that they should be institutionalised from an early age. Has political cross-dressing really moved the Conservatives this far Left?
The further you go down the income spectrum, the greater the decline in marriage and paternal involvement.
Any comprehensive attempt to measure the ways in which life has got better, would also have to account for the things that have got worse.
We need a judge-led inquiry into the impact of Sharia marriage and inheritance prescriptions on British communities.
Capped care home fees. Better help for rape victims. 15 hours free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds. Reduced number of pension qualifying years for women. And more.
This is a social justice issue: people with lower incomes aspire to get married, but face significantly higher financial and cultural barriers to doing so.
Better pre-school education, more help in need for those who have contributed more, a higher minimum wage, support for grandparents – all fit Conservative ideals.
In the second part of ConHome’s series, the author sets out a programme that would breathe life into the Government’s “family test” for policy.