Ever since the EU referendum, there’s been renewed focus on how to help poorer places. Helpfully there is decades of evidence about what does and doesn’t work.
If you believe in this idea of conservatism; if you want new faces at the table; if you share these ambitions, then please say so.
Fittingly, the Black Country, synonymous with the heavy industry of the Industrial Revolution, aims to take the lead in building this new science of reclamation.
There is a fundamental human need and desire to know more about the universe, to engage with it, to play our part and explore and achieve.
“Today over half of the UK’s resident researcher population were born overseas. When we leave the European Union, I will ensure that does not change.”
We must not conflate the progress that scientific advancement offers us with the idea that debate becomes redundant in the face of an increased awareness of scientific fact.
Councils could encourage more schools to specialise and give more children in care the chance to attend boarding schools.
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
To reduce investment in infrastructure or R&D is to take away from the future – just as surely as running up unsustainable debt does.
The evidence of improved standards shows that a knowledge-rich curriculum is the best way to enable each person to achieve the best of which he or she is capable.
A combination of work permits and a cap would provide proper control, while still allowing flexibility where it is required.
Just as the MPs of the 1970s realised the need to understand economics, the MPs of the 21st Century must understand how we think, and why.
Now is the time to spread more of the success beyond the South East.
The Article 50 Bill starts its passage through the Commons today – uniting the Conservative Party and throwing Labour into disarray.
The most successful ones will be those that maintain their partnerships in Europe, but also look farther afield to forge new associations across the globe.