Brexity Hezza and Lawsony Javid

The former Chancellor can become spokesman for a cause, and it isn’t hard to see what it could be: lower spending and taxes.

Iain Dale: What was hung around May’s neck in this week’s 1922 meeting was… a garland

Plus: Chinese whispers, Whitehall moves – and a Budget that is set to target business rather than taxpayers.

Spreadsheet Phil must become Storyteller Phil – if his Budget is to succeed where the Tory conference failed

The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.

Our survey and Brexit. Party members divide down the middle about bringing a halt to the talks.

Party member opinion on the negotiations is clearly at the harder end of the spectrum on independence and economics – though not invariably on immigration.

Pro-Remain Cabinet Minister “wants Gove as Chancellor”

Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.

May can use Johnson to strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations

She can indicate that neither her party nor the public will be satisfied if she bows the knee to Brussels.

Robert Halfon: Being a Workers Party means being a party for lower taxes too

We should put the proceeds in a special Redistribution Fund to spend either on public services, or on poorer communities, or cutting taxes for the lower paid.

Market sentiment

Some Ministers and Conservative MPs are so spooked by Corbyn that they are in danger of losing their heads.

Howard Flight: The City can flourish after Brexit – and the EEA option is the safest means of ensuring this happens

Continental Europe needs the financial services of London just as much, if not more, than London needs its financial exports to Continental Europe.

Isabel Oakeshott: Where is Leave’s leader?

The campaign to quit the EU lacks charismatic faces to put up against the Prime Minister, three former premiers and well-known business figures.

Profile: Amber Rudd, a true believer in climate change

The new Energy and Climate Change Secretary epitomises the belief of the Cameroons that they can dominate politics for many years to come.

Adam Memon: “The Policy” is a great idea

Our proposed tax cut for small businesses is big, bold, self-financing – and would boost jobs and drive up living standards. What could be more Thatcherite than that?

Matthew Sinclair: “The Policy” is a Terrible Idea

Lord Saatchi’s scheme fails the Thatcher Test – because it abandons the principle that the tax system should be as neutral as possible between different businesses.

Lord Lawson becomes the first former Chancellor to call for Britain to quit the EU

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Lord Lawson says that Osborne has no “growth button” to press

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. To the Carlton Club yesterday evening…for a Taxpayers' Alliance's dinner to celebrate the 1988… Read more »