Matt Kilcoyne: We can save our high streets by slashing the red tape holding them back

Rigid, centralised planning rules are preventing Britain’s towns from adapting organically to changes in how we live, work, and shop.

Nicholas Boys Smith: The housing mission that Scruton and I pursued is inspired by a quest for beauty

The co-Chair of the Government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission wraps up our mini-series on housing.

Carol Matthews: We need fairer investment and supply to level up housing in the North

In the second piece in our mini-series, the Chair of Homes for the North argues that driving public investment in housing towards the South East is not sustainable.

Dean Godson: What Johnson should do now in this Government’s first hundred days

In his foreword to our new Policy Exchange paper, John Howard urges the Prime Minister to “seize the moment”.

Garvan Walshe: How the majority needed to deliver Brexit will thwart the reform needed to make a success of it

A new Conservative Government will need to transform the economy. It remains to be seen whether this be done with a majority based on northern, post-industrial Britain.

Joe Shalam: A New Homes Network and a Boris Builds scheme. What a Conservative housing policy should look like.

It was described earlier this week as ‘the election issue yet to bark’. But it seems that this sleeping dog has finally awoken.

Andy Street: Brownfield First works in the West Midlands. The Conservatives should commit to rolling it out elsewhere.

Our pledge has been to look first to these former industrial sites, to reclaim them and clean them up, when developers come knocking on the door.

Matt Kilcoyne: The Conservative manifesto. Wooing Labour heartlands with socialist policy is a doomed strategy.

The first piece of a series this week about what the Conservative Manifesto should look like.

Neil O’Brien: How we can win support from younger voters – and turn our present strength into an enduring majority

For me, the most concerning thing wasn’t being behind among the very young, but being behind among everyone under age 47.

Matthew Lesh: The radical neoliberal programme which can revitalise the Conservatives

The Neoliberal Manifesto, a joint project between the Adam Smith Institute and 1828, champions an approach based on freedom, markets and choice.

Ryan Bourne: To help grow prosperity, let’s focus on people and not places – such as towns

Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.

Bob Seely: Scrap the automatic Right to Buy. And nine other ideas to make housing sustainable.

The rest of our economy is shifting to greater sustainability. The system to provide places to live should do the same.

George Freeman: Our new book. In which forty Tory MPs band together to help revive conservatism.

Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.

Howard Flight: Ministers must embrace supply-side reform to revive home ownership

That means easing onerous planning restrictions and ending George Osborne’s misguided crackdown on buy-to-let landlords.

The local election aftermath. May and Corbyn are like two spooked children, drawing nearer for comfort as the thunder rages.

Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?