Willetts has no objection to getting local councils to build more houses, and “hopes and believes” Osborne will find ways to alleviate the cuts in tax credits.
We recognise the vital role of unions, and the right to strike – but the interests of the general public must be considered, too.
There are internal tensions in the Government’s thinking.
Honoured today as a forerunner of social justice conservatism, the Tory battler against slavery was a more complex figure.
The Prime Minister on his homes, education & work speech today – and more opportunities.
David Cameron looked admirably chastened. Michael Gove behaved like an octogenarian who is taking great care to avoid nasty accidents.
Cameron’s former chief strategist has lost patience with crony capitalism. The new Deputy Chairman of the Party is well-placed to help make real his radical vision.
It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.
As it happens, I live only a few hundred yards from his house.
Our plan for an elected Mayor for Manchester and a Northern Powerhouse is part of a continuing story of progressive civic Conservatism.
Neither man saw anything to be gained from expressing a more generous patriotism. Nick Clegg looked desperate, but Michael Gove seemed perky.
Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.
For the first time in years, young women with push chairs were happy to stop and talk to someone wearing a blue rosette, and even to take balloons for the children.
My party seeks to build an economy which works for the many, not for the few.
In the kind of political street fights we have both been through, we know that you have to be passionate. Your head screwed on, yes, but also with a full beating heart.