Tania Mathias: Social care reform should be Johnson’s legacy as much as Brexit

The need for a technologically savvy workforce dominates debates, but what we need just as much is more “high touch” or empathetic jobs.

Dan Pitt: In spite of this pandemic, constitutional reforms remain a high priority for Conservatives

Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.

George Freeman: Hancock’s critics will look for failures in his 100,000 test goal. But his ambition will drive Britain forward.

Used properly, stretch targets have the effect of galvanising the level of culture change, ambition, pace and delivery which is needed. 

Iain Dale: It’s time for Cabinet members of both sexes to show some balls

Plus: People vote for me to shave off my beard. But the decision was only advisory. And did they have enough information…?

Howard Flight: This Conservative Government has slipped towards socialism – the rot must be stopped

The tax take is at its highest ever, and yet the Government is looking at ways to raise yet more taxes.

Robert Colvile: Our drive at the Centre for Policy Studies for new ideas for ownership

Our New Generation programme will be tasked with producing policies in areas that are of pressing concern to voters: tax, enterprise, housing, welfare.

Edward Rees: Taking inspiration from Thatcher’s NHS reforms to improve the service today

The current pressures faced by the health service are not new or exclusive to the 21st Century. Let’s learn from past experience.

Chris Grayling: Don’t claim that I didn’t warn you about Corbyn

When I wrote on this website last year that we should not underestimate him, some ridiculed my argument. Now we have to educate a new generation about the dangers of Labour.

May’s Europe speech and the pound. “The markets are always right.” Discuss.

They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.

Peter Cuthbertson: There was no alternative to Thatcherism – even the SDP would have wrecked our country

It was crucial not just to defy the far left – but also the moderate left and the establishment.

Andrew Gimson’s Conference Diary: This lamentable rhetoric will in time produce a reaction

Plus: Why do so many expensive hotels think it is a good thing to make their windows unopenable? Can’t we go back to Blackpool?

John Bald: The abolition of parent governors would be a great mistake

The views of parents matter – and they can serve as a bulwark against corruption.

WATCH: Margaret Thatcher “leaving Downing Street for the last time” 25 years ago

“Now it’s time for a new chapter to open.”

25 years on, Thatcher’s legacy is stronger than ever

Thatcherism has spread around the world causing global poverty to plummet.

If the momentum of the last hundred days is maintained what will Britain be like in five years?

Often the reforms are going further than anything that Margaret Thatcher achieved.