Osborne simply has no political room to do anything very much. The big decisions will come after the election – whoever is in office.
He gets 19 consecutive paragraphs in the Yorkshire Post, by my count. No interruption or intepretation – just straight reporting.
Since we don’t need HS2, at least on its present route, do we really need HS3?
Home ownership first. New garden cities. Scrap HS2. Repatriate immigration control. Reform pensions tax relief. Higher NIC thesholds. English home rule. Internet voting.
The Chancellor comments on the One North proposals to better connect Northern cities.
A good start in wooing Tyneside’s voters would be getting its name right.
We have a deficit of over £100 billion. We have record household debt. We need an Affordability Commission.
The Chancellor praised senior Labour councillors on Monday. Conservative Warwickshire and Labour Coventry are also showing the benefits of working together.
The politics of HS3 look more convincing that the economics
Its City Deal is an example of what our Government is doing to create and reinforce a virtuous circle of investment, success and prosperity in our urban areas.
The squeeze isn’t really over. But there are other boons for marginal voters in today’s employment statistics.
In answer to Mark Wallace, here’s how to use policy and people to secure long-term success.
We suffer today from the short-termist decisions of Tories decades ago. How will we leave a better political inheritance?
A host of conservative and libertarian thinkers and campaigners will be arrayed for your inspiration.
London has morphed into an economic giant, creating a black hole, sucking in the best talent from the rest of the UK.