Gone is the Conservative certainty of reducing taxes to promote businesses’ own investment and growth.
Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.
We will push back internally when ideologues call for sensible Ministers to be sacked because they are trying to act in the national interest over Brexit.
“We’re badly trailing in the polls. Corbyn’s up and you’re down. You hired me to get things done and tell you how I see it. Here goes.”
The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.
May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.
Most people I’m meeting seem either pro-Leave or resigned to it happening – and believing that Theresa May is best-placed to see it through.
The harsh truth is that, nearly seven years into Conservative-led Government, we are still living beyond our means.
A new fortnightly column from the former Education Secretary starts tomorrow.
The logic of her view that no deal is better than a bad one suggests that, like Thatcher at Fontainebleau, she is prepared to walk away if necessary.
There is a trade-off between the long-term interest of the economy and the short-term interest of many Leave voters.
Wales has shown Labour failure and a lack of true accountability.
The housing shortage is pushing benefit bills up in the prosperous South East. Here’s how to get them down.
The first article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.