The Canada Plus Plus Plus answer to the Northern Ireland question

The myth has it that there never was such a plan – in fact, DexEU had a proposal to fulfil its promise of no ‘hard border’ while still overseeing a proper customs regime.

CCHQ encourages applicants to be Police and Crime Commissioner candidates

The deadline is August 6th. While the role has yet to capture the public’s imagination, it has genuine power.

Treason trials

Much of the establishment now accepts that Islamist ideology must be named and challenged. But this view doesn’t seem to be held by the new DPP.

What Brokenshire is up to as Communities Secretary, sorry, Housing Secretary, sorry, Communities Secretary

He wants to take people with him in his quest to hit the Government’s target. But will radical policy ideas fit with his emollient political approach?

Shaun Spiers: The answer to the housing shortage is more planning, not less

And, as Boles says, we will never build the number of homes we need unless the state is building 100,000 a year.

Dean Godson: Beauty is the key to delivering the extra homes that our country needs

People’s preferences are clear. But the current system insists on bringing forward designs that jar painfully with them.

Bob Seely: My housing challenge to think tanks. Devise a strategy that will prize social justice above economic liberalism.

In my constituency, we have a target of just over 640 homes a year. Our housing waiting list is 3,000.

Peter Franklin: Physician, heal thyself; think tanks, re-think thyselves

Onward seems set to propound the liberal and Freer the libertarian versions of the globalist agenda. Where does that leave the anti-globalist voters who now back the Tories?

Dean Godson: Our mission to help build a new national consensus

At Policy Exchange, we see prosperity, people, place, and patriotism as the four pillars of a politics which seeks to unite the four nations, town and country, and north and south.

“Capitalism… is not delivering.” Gove’s critique of the system at Policy Exchange. Full text.

“Over recent years innovation has declined, and growth has stalled, because capital has not been allocated to productive investment.”

Tony Sewell: Brexit, Windrush, and the rebirth of liberal Britain

Even the liberal commentators are having to acknowledge that post-Brexit the country has become more welcoming to migration, not less.

James Frayne: Onward, the new think-tank, is rightly focused on what matters to provincial Britain

It would be easy, but mistaken, to take the path of least resistance and simply re-enact the dated Cameron ‘modernising’ agenda.

Nicky Morgan: As Onward launches today, Number Ten needs to give us all something to hope for

The Government should consider setting up a domestic policy Cabinet sub-committee to help alleviate the Brexit bandwidth problem.

James Frayne: The most effective case against nationalisation is the one that neither MPs nor businesses want to use

The injection of the truth that it would mean politicians in charge of services is enough to make most people see sense.

Claire Ainsley: There is a new working class, with different political concerns and motivations from the old

Understanding what makes these voters tick could be key to the outcome of the next election. No party can afford to ignore them.