Nadhim Zahawi: Apprenticeships – a crowning achivement of this Government’s work
You may well hear grumbling from businesses about the levy which will help to fund them – but the effort will be worth it.
You may well hear grumbling from businesses about the levy which will help to fund them – but the effort will be worth it.
The Prime Minister records her second-best ever result in our table, whilst the Communities Secretary becomes the first to record a negative score.
And May’s reputation for straightforwardness risks damage from the Budget’s proposals for NICs.
His position as an adviser was more than decorative and he will be a loss. But as someone or other once put it, there is no alternative.
The MP for Enfield Southgate helped to sink tax credit and Sunday Trading changes – and now has eye on the Government’s housing benefit plans for young people.
The Communities Secretary has faced some opportunistic criticism of late, but ever since he joined Parliament he’s been tirelessly on the side of businesses.
Answering a question from Caroline Lucas, she says she has instructed Javid and Hammond to put protections in place.
In the last year he has lost much of his grassroots support and a powerful patron, leaving him without political armour.
Theresa May’s austere approach to news management is a plus for government – at least, so far. But it’s turning out to be a minus for her ministers.
Theresa May and David Davis hold their ground whilst their colleagues nearly all suffer falling scores, and the Chancellor knocks Ruth Davidson out of the top three!
We sometimes forget the downside of Macmillan’s legacy – rushed housing that later cost a fortune to put right.
Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.
Much of it is excellent and a skeleton for delivery, but it will need work to put flesh on the bones.
Too much land is left vacant, and too many developments completed slowly so as not to lower house prices. Councils need more power to take action.
The report I have been working on over the past year will provide the Government with a clear strategy to help tackle rough sleeping.