Emily Barley: We can counter Russia, China and Iran with this alliance of nimble countries
This list of allies and partners includes Australia, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Oman, Qatar and Singapore.
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Nick Hurd: The Dormant Assets Bills gives us a modest money tree. Let’s use it wisely.
This is an opportunity to bring together those making a difference in communities with the flexible, socially motivated investment they need.
Gerard Lyons: We must rise to the challenge of dealing with China. Here’s a strategy for doing so.
The UK needs a fresh, robust template. Central to it should be a differentiation between strategic and non-strategic areas.
David Willetts: New businesses, faster connections, better data, tighter security. There are so many reasons to commit to Space.
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s boldest move to get us ahead in the new space race – the One Web deal.
Chris Skidmore: For the UK to become a global science superpower, the Chancellor must set out a clear plan this week
We can still be another Israel or South Korea, if we decide a strategy and stick to it.
Ben Roback: Biden’s Afghan pull-out represents the rash decision-making we had expected from Trump
‘Sleepy Joe’ has sleep-walked the United States into its biggest foreign policy debacle for a generation.
Kristy Adams: Without Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services getting more funding, we are storing up trouble
Children make up around 20 per cent of the population – yet CAMHS only receives 6.4 per cent of mental health spending.
Will Holloway: The Government can show it’s serious about levelling up by launching a National Plan for Manufacturing
It could take action to reduce industrial electricity costs, among other important steps.
Chris Skidmore: To keep up with our G7 colleagues, we must increase our spending on innovation and research
Currently the UK spends around 1.7 per cent of its GDP on R&D. Yet the US and China are heading towards three per cent GDP, and others even more.
Robert Halfon: A local Labour candidate has organised a petition against an army cadet course. Not quite the people’s priorities.
Plus: Is it really a bad thing if more work from home? And: It’s time to acknowledge private workers’ contributions in the Covid crisis.
The first North Koreans to stand as Conservative candidates help vindicate our democracy
The harrowing personal story of Jihyun Park, followed by her selection as a Tory candidate in Bury, puts current political obsessions in perspective.
Neil O’Brien: I can laugh off China sanctioning me, but we can’t shrug off the threat it poses
The UK and governments across the west have started to act. But we’re still just starting to figure out how to respond.
A year of Starmer. Why are his ratings going downhill? Lack of authenticity, inconsistency and missed opportunities.
Strangely, one of the few things that now unites voters across the Left and Right is a feeling he won’t win an election.
Neil O’Brien: The view that manufacturing is a relic of the past is itself a relic of the past
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
Grant Shapps: Our plan to supercharge the Union’s transport links can help make us Europe’s biggest economy by 2050
Our Union Connectivity Review will favour routes that serve this aim – be they the A75, the A55 in north Wales or the air corridors to Northern Ireland.