With another Budget just around the corner, all eyes will be on whether the Chancellor can make things better, or at the very least not make them much worse.
Entrepreneurial drive that pushes people to work hard and take risks, including starting a business, comes from a culture of personal responsibility and seeking reward for effort. High taxes and cradle-to-grave welfare undermines that culture.
Our polling, shared exclusively with ConHome, suggests a change of leader isn’t likely to solve anything – unless it means the Party delivers a clear-eyed assessment of what it is and for whom it stands. This isn’t about a new face, but a new foundation.
The former Chancellor contends that Britain can become the next Silicon Valley.
The right path begins with acknowledging that equating mental and physical health, though well-meaning, has led to unintended consequences. Changing course will take moral courage.
The former Chancellor says he does “feel somewhat for Rachel Reeves” ahead of the spending review
I’ve lived and worked in Singapore for almost three years. I started a business and a family here. I can understand why conservatives idealise the place.
The party would be wise to look again at the small print of child benefit changes set out last Spring and carried forward in their manifesto. Far from just being about rates and thresholds, if you look closely, it is here that the seeds of a more fundamental reset of the relationship between the state and parents were laid.
As the world closes up following Trump’s tariffs it would be a “real mistake” for the UK to impose reciprocal tariffs, says former chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
The Conservative Party has for a long time shied from any plan that effectively picks winners among business sectors, but our view is that, in the modern economy, that view is outdated.
If we are to have a credible platform at the next election, it will mean more than talking about how much money we spend on these things, but how they are reformed to make them better.
Kemi Badenoch has suggested that equality and diversity battles are thinly veiled class struggles. Taxing “broad shoulders” while claiming to spare “working people” amounts to disingenuous double-speak. Are Reform the beneficiaries?
If the party ever decides to value experience over novelty again, the first lesson to learn is not to suffer a landslide defeat.
Accepting this is the difference between paying lip-service to the principle of lower taxation and actually holding it.
Becoming a ScaleUp Nation is not a slogan. It is an economic strategy for the next 10, 20, 50 years. It is how Britain competes with the US, China and the EU. And it requires that Conservative belief that Britain’s prosperity is built by those who combine innovation with investment