Iain Duncan Smith: Today, at long last, we begin the process of leaving the EU
The Article 50 Bill starts its passage through the Commons today – uniting the Conservative Party and throwing Labour into disarray.
The Article 50 Bill starts its passage through the Commons today – uniting the Conservative Party and throwing Labour into disarray.
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
Too many people have seen little wage growth in over two decades, and remain in insecure jobs with no prospect of in-work progression.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.
The Centre for Social Justice, which I am now chairing once again, is turning its attention to the quality of growth and jobs.
It is scarcely believable for Dianne Abbott to still be stating that Jeremy Corbyn ‘is not concerned about numbers’ – but it’s true.
If the Business Secretary wants to become the man for enterprise, he needs to challenge his own bureaucrats.
Downing Street can win votes in the regions without resorting to Blair’s pork-barrel spending.
The Chancellor’s big task today is to give business a sense of the Government’s plan for Britain post-Brexit.
The introduction of a work permit scheme that confines EU migration to skilled employment would by our calcuation reduce it net by approximately 100,000 a year.
You can only come back in politics if you have first left. And it’s better to take the decision yourself rather than have it forced on you.
We re-issue the new Brexit Secretary’s essay on economic policy and the EU negotiation, originally published on this site on Monday.
Crucially, he has enhanced the role of our state without falling into the trap of just extending it.
Cameron may soon be going, but we must ensure that his legacy is secured, our party should unite, and our work should begin again.