Johnny Mercer: Ministers are asking for my vote next week. But I’m asking them for a vision – now.
I, like many colleagues, react badly to the Party’s decision to try and strong-arm me into voting for this deal.
I, like many colleagues, react badly to the Party’s decision to try and strong-arm me into voting for this deal.
If we need to leave with no deal and negotiate a free trade agreement during the transition period, so be it.
Over the last couple of years in groups I’ve run, people have become simultaneously more obsessed about the service and more concerned about waste.
In the final article of our mini-series, the Onward Director says that there must also be a new strategy to help boost Britain’s productivity rate.
In the second article of our mini-series, the Harlow MP calls for a relentless focus on the cost of living, a skills-based economy, social injustices and affordable housing.
That doesn’t mean the Party needs to move right; on the contrary, it means accommodating on issues such as the NHS.
That’s you told, Johnson and Truss. Plus: a Universal Credit Brexit Dividend for working families.
The first in a series of three extracts from a new book of essays from Conservative Friends of International Development and Save the Children.
Our new fortnightly columnist on a renaissance which “through teamwork and shared vision, is producing real results”.
Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.
Prevention, detection and treatment are three means of building on the progress that we’re already making.
They are a stealth tax on the sick, the vulnerable, on families, and our hard-working NHS employees. And nearly 50 per cent of hospitals charge blue-badge holders.
From community services and mental health treatment, to alleviating PFI debt, the extra cash must be used to prepare the health service for the future.
The move formalises a precedent with disturbing longer-term implications for the relationship between the citizen and government.
This is not so much a pro-market position as an anti-democratic one. There is more to politics than market versus state.