We can’t win a workable majority without breaking through in more seats in the urban and suburban North and Midlands.
Also: Welsh Conservatives attack urban-focused Labour. And did the Scottish Nationalists know of concerns about MP weeks before withdrawing the whip?
Also: Crabb concedes Wales should have more powers; Lords call to pause Scotland Bill; second SNP MP faces police investigation; First Minister of Ulster steps down; and more.
Also: Welsh Government tries to poach English doctors; Ulster health minister calls for prescription charges, SNP under pressure over Scottish police; and more.
The Welsh businesses which have banded together to exploit the tax advantages of multinationals could be pioneers for big society, small-government activism.
Also: SNP forced into tax credits u-turn; Welsh Government fears grant cuts; support for united Ireland falls to 13 per cent; and more.
The reason given for their stance is a mere fig leaf. They care only about the bigger game of breaking up the United Kingdom.
Also: Crabb warns constitutional fixation risks paralysing Welsh politics; Scottish Labour splits party on Trident; Scottish education policy under attack; and more.
Also: SNP under pressure over NHS decline; IRA crisis plagues Ulster parties; Unite to back ditching Trident at Scottish Labour conference; and more.
Also: Third SNP MP faces scrutiny over business dealings; DUP return to Northern Ireland Executive; abortion row divides separatists; and more.
There is to be a new grammar school, sorry, grammar school extension in Kent. But shouldn’t the good people of that county have charge of such decisions?
Also: Nationalists bow out of EU ‘In’ campaign; Labour AM attacks government culture in Cardiff; DUP might return to NI Executive; and more.
Also: Nationalists under fire over second MP; Cameron increases pressure for Ulster deal; Crabb claims slim chance of reaching Welsh devolution agreement; and more.
My aim in next year’s election is simple – I want to be First Minister.
The Institute for Government’s new guide reminds us that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat partnership helped to improve Britain for the better.