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.
The towns of the North East, left behind for generations by Labour, will need to see their Conservative MPs forging a durable path to a future.
Every MP wants to make sure restrictions in their area are as limited as possible. But we’re close to the end now. Let’s not fall near the finish line.
We knew that even the prospect of one would widen and deepen debate on Coronavirus policy – which was essential.
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
Compare and contrast how government works with what the Armed Forces do – and their practice of decentralised command.
It can never replace face to face help that families need, but it can provide quick answers, useful signposting and help to combat loneliness.
We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.
The key lesson from the Cambridge scheme is the importance of public support. Eighty per cent of students volunteered to take part.
The third in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
Whitehall must understand that if an algorithm offers up cherished green spaces to hungry developers, there will be a local backlash.
We know is that a lockdown is very damaging. The first one took around a quarter off our national income and output. We cannot afford to do that again.
We need to start listening to the right people – not hopeless people who get it wrong time and again, but face zero accountability.
I have tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill that would require us to achieve WHO guideline limits for particulate matter by 2030.