The Government has once again taken on the Nationalists and, contra 25 years of devolutionary received wisdom, won the day.
A final set of questions relates to whether, if we are going to spend £28 billion to improve economic growth, spending it on the green economy is the best way of doing so.
Review Net Zero interventions, cut immigration; freeze Civil Service recruitment, reduce railway subsidies – and tell the Bank of England to stop selling bonds at a loss.
Were Reeves to return to the UK without answers it would leave her open to accusation of engaging in a long-distance publicity stunt.
At the local level, they are well on their way to major-party status – and it’s in cracks in the Blue Wall that they’re growing most vigorously.
The enthusiasm of some of my colleagues for ever greater state involvement in crucial industries is a gift to Labour.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
The approach set out under the REUL Bill risked becoming a parochial and backward-looking distraction. EU regulation should be considered in conjunction with domestic rules and curent economic and social trends.
The changing global landscape should refocus our policy on the factors that are need to improve the investment outlook – such as sound macro polices and the level, predictability and simplicity of tax.
For years, the ravages of the Scottish Government’s failures have not shown up in the Nationalists’ polling. But the spell has broken.
It is absurd to set a strictly political timetable for the wholesale transfer of an industrial economy to unproven technologies.
Green Finance may sound admirably ambitious, but if it means diverting capital from efficient, market-driven investments into manipulated ones then we will all suffer. Nobody has voted to be made poorer.
It not only presents a growing opportunity to help provide more secure and clean electricity, heating and fuels but also offers a major source of new industrial growth.
Commentators focus their attention on the Red or Blue walls, but the Conservatives shouldn’t turn their backs on the green bridge of voters in both camps, especially when we have a strong record on climate and the environment.
Government risks fixating on specific projects, such as electric vehicles, rather than nurturing innovation and letting industry develop solutions.