After crushing Labour last year, it might be tempting to rest on our laurels. But we need to act now to keep the extreme left locked out of Number 10.
My lawyer friend Victoria Hewson and I have launched a small, non-funded campaign called ‘Radical’, aimed at fighting for truth and freedom in this arena.
Tagging offenders, and the provision of work programmes, can rescue those at risk of being lost to a path from which they will find it difficult to return.
Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.
The 2024 general election will come around much faster than we think. Having a youth wing that feels valued and is sufficiently energised might just swing the balance.
If I had not been sent to a state boarding school and experienced stable relationships, I would likely have ended up in care myself.
We won the election but suffered badly in places like Canterbury, which I contested.
Applying the principles of prevention, treatment and recovery could deliver results. This could be a real legacy.
There are now so many of them that the degree itself has less impact on employability – this ensuring that they become less economically valuable.
A new era beckons, the strings on the public purse are loosening, and it’s time to show what a compassionate, one-nation Conservative government can achieve.
In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks. It will be a battle between creativity and convention.
Around two-thirds of the top 100 marginal seats are town constituencies. That presents an opportunity.
The fifth piece in our series this week about what the Tory Manifesto should look like.
Too often, discussions about the sector generate more heat than light – and the light falls in the wrong place. We can do better.