May the builder?

If she really is to “dedicate my premiership” to fixing housing growth and home ownership, she will need to throw a chunk of her caution to the winds.

John Penrose: There’s a free market-friendly solution to energy price caps

Let’s not set the prices, but instead the gap between the ultra-competitive deals for switchers and the tariffs for loyal customers.

John Penrose: A Property Register will make Britain a world leader in transparency once again

Making it harder for criminals to hide behind shell companies will boost our international standing and remove a driver of high house prices.

Stuart Jackson: Why it’s time for a relative energy price cap

It would achieve real competition, incentivise efficiency and bring prices down for the majority (companies would be forced to compete for new customers or wither fast).

Wanted: a revived campaign for Brexit of all parties and none. Without it, Remain may snatch victories from defeat.

The news is not all bad for supporters of Leave. But a weakened Government needs third party support to deliver not so much a Soft or Hard Brexit as a clean one.

It’s time for Conservatives to get over Thatcher, get on with May – and look forward, not back

The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.

Stuart Jackson: Here’s how a price cap could introduce real competition to the energy market

A ‘relative’ cap on the difference between standard variable tariffs and acquisition tariffs could untie Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ in the retail energy market.

If the energy cap doesn’t fit…

May wants to break with the Thatcher tradition on controls, but there are risks from our old friend the law of unexpected consequences.

The 1922 Committee proposes to beef up incumbency protections for MPs threatened by the boundary changes

A letter to the Parliamentary Conservative Party reveals the ongoing work to fulfil Cameron’s “no MP left behind” promise.

Osborne’s latest retreat on Short Money fits a pattern

If he wants to lead the Party and the country, the Chancellor is going to have to start seeing through these plans of his.

Tightening the electoral roll is good for democracy

It reduces the risk of fraud and motivates parties to go out and persuade the electorate that voting matters.

Brokenshire replaces Harper as Immigration Minister

Downing Street announces the ministerial changes resulting from Mark Harper’s resignation

The reshuffle: evening summary

All in all, a good day for the Centre-Left of the Tory Party, lots of change at the Whips Office…and what the lobbies are bound to see as the demotion of housing.

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