Towards the end of the nineteenth century Britain began to cede market share in industries such as coal mining, textiles, iron, steel, and shipbuilding.
Agency workers and minimum service guarantees are a start. But there is more for Ministers to do.
Voters aren’t used to a world of rising prices and interest rates, and their hearts and minds are up for grabs.
There is a lot of rhetoric about boosting vocational training, but we need to do more to deliver it in practice.
No Conservative leader has lost a challenge as Prime Minister, but neither have any survived their victories by as much as a year.
The presumption must be that the Prime Minister will win. History suggests a question that would follow is: by how much?
If the party really wants to honour its past, then it must face up to problems of the present.
The Attorney General on judges, Asian values, Spartans, the Good Law Project, Lord Frost – and why the Tories should revive the torch logo.
One controversy may be considered to be a misfortune, two looks like carelessness and three suggests a pattern of behaviour.
By the end, an element of willed indignation could be detected in some of the accusations levelled against him.
And yet I can’t help yearning for proof that Britain still has it in her, and for a Prime Minister willing to make tough but necessary choices.
My instinct last week was that he tried too hard to please the Tory press. Nothing’s that’s happened since has suggested otherwise.
A key economic problem during the 1980s was union power. Now it is weak incentives to move and retrain.
It is absurd that people willing to work must instead sit on their hands and depend on state benefits.
But unless the Party offers them a genuine shot at prosperity, it risks sliding into decline.