Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.
If we allow Britain to get locked into Brussels’ agricultural orbit, it will cost us both export opportunities and higher prices in the supermarket.
The only caveat is the attitude of the Welsh Labour Government, hell-bent on replacing the EU’s onerous regulations with their own.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
New proposals will stifle the food and drink industry, which has played a vital role in supporting the country through the pandemic.
Labour would abolish Universal Credit, which has coped well with the unprecedented pressures of this unprecedented last year.
It might seem far-fetched that one could face jail for eating steak frites. But one could have said the same about not eating at least a scotch egg with your pint.
There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.
When older heads avoided last month’s Commons debate, the 2019 intake rode out to defend their leader. Many will never so readily do so again.
The UK market for food and groceries is a massive prize for any country to be allowed greater access to it. We should not sell ourselves short.
The second in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
The first in a mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on Covid-19 – and helping those in deep poverty.
We need a long-term poverty strategy and a Social Justice Cabinet Committee. And here’s a Christmas holiday plan for childrens’ food.
By uniting behind Johnson’s plan, and replicating the approach of these two mayors, the the environment can become a winning issue for the party.