The Cities Minister wants to see counties follow cities in gaining more powers.
The Conservative campaign needs some warmth, uplift and outreach. That means focus on what helped Thatcher and Macmillan to win elections – housing.
The Home Secretary is second, and Gove wins plaudits among the write-ins.
Whether English votes for English laws gets through the Commons or not, we need a constitutional convention to give wider reform legitimacy.
Number 10’s exam crisis style of leadership has once again been found wanting – but, this time, on a matter so serious that it cannot be allowed to continue.
Councils put their own money into a project and pitch to central Government for more
Also: On admiring Paul Sykes, wishing Farage a speedy recovery, my strange dream (watch, out Greg Clark)…and why Miliband is making a twat of himself.
The shuffle sends out a clear message to Conservative MPs: stay on the right side of the Chancellor. Theresa May and Boris Johnson should note it too
Sajid Javid, Esther McVey. Nicky Morgan. Greg Hands – it’s turning out much as predicted. Women, Blue Collar Tories and Friends of George (not necessarily in that order).
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. A rite of spring is upon us again: the banks’ bonus announcements. For years now, these declarations have become an annual focal point […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. From most parts of the Palace of Westminster you can’t actually see the River Thames. But in the summer of 1858 you could […]
No-one can explain what the Bill is for – consistently, at any rate. And no-one seems to be in charge.