Wages are growing at their fastest rate for ten years, and employment is at a near-record high. But qualifications are necessary…
And: Churchill-mania, Moggmania, and the passion of Rory Stewart. Plus: too many lobbyists.
Rather than wasting time with forays into positive discrimination, the Conservatives should weight the merits of various forms of increased flexibility at work.
It is the spending that needs to be controlled and reduced, rather than taxes increased yet further.
The Tories have been ahead only once since the summit, though the shift away from them has flattened out.
Implementing a fair and controlled skills-based immigration system would be a huge win for the Government – and deliver on a key pledge of the Brexit campaign.
The British left are somewhat more open to the idea, but the Conservative Party’s members and voters would not wear the proposal
New polling shows that national identity is a strong, emotive force – but also that it remains poorly-defined.
It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.
There are clearly questions about what’s happening in relation to voting, membership, and representation — and what the Party should or might want to do.
The injection of the truth that it would mean politicians in charge of services is enough to make most people see sense.
If one of a couple claiming the marriage allowance becomes a higher rate taxpayer, there is a 23,800 per cent marginal tax rate on the first penny over the threshold.