Abolish the Environment Agency
The principle of localism should be extended to water management
For the second month running, Theresa May tops our future Tory leader poll
Once again, the Home Secretary pips Boris Johnson at the post.
Tory members have settled into remarkably consistent views about Coalition with the Lib Dems
But will that change this year? When even David Laws is agitating against the Tories, relations could turn worse.
Two out of five Tory members want a pact with UKIP
But most of these want a vote-swapping or standing down arrangement rather than a fully-blown deal or merger.
IDS turns up the volume: the sequel
Although this time it’s not his political career that’s at stake, but the future of welfare reform.
The bristling tensions between David Cameron and Theresa May
They were the driving cause of yesterday’s Commons debacle – not any error by the whips.
Carswell abandons rebellion – because a Conservative victory in 2015 is the only way Britain can leave the EU
A major change is underway in euroscepticism – flamboyant but futile cavaliers are being replaced by roundheads who want to win this war.
How Cameron and the rebels can kiss and make up
Downing Street must play its own part in making peace with the Euro-sceptics.
As RBS flounders, Osborne needs a financial and political strategy
The Chancellor might once have hoped to author any RBS sell-off – now it looks like anyone’s game.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron refused to get into a class war with Miliband
But there is now clear pink water between the two parties on tax.
The Tories need a generous not a coercive rhetoric about the poor
Voters detect, in expressions like “hard-working families”, an intolerable bogusness.
The polls with a pinch of salt
It’s worth putting the latest ones into perspective.
Would you support a pact with UKIP? Who is your choice for EU Commissioner?
Answer these questions – and more – in our latest monthly survey. A link to the survey can be found in this post.
Sentiment trumps statistics – but statistics still matter
It surprises me that the parties haven’t really got their own IFS-style detachments: pumping out analysis of a quality and timeliness that rivals the best data blogs.
Cutting the numbers stuck on disability benefit is an important achievement
Providing the most effective help and opportunities for the disabled can be achieved at the same time as reducing the cost to the taxpayer.