We need to put the entire benefits system up for review
The founding tenets of the Welfare State have been overcome by change and cheap politics. It’s time for another Beveridge Report.
Osborne backs a rise in the National Minimum Wage – and spikes Miliband’s big day
“When I look at the British economy, I see [it] expanding…I think Britain can afford a higher minimum wage.”
An overdue confession: the police crime statistics are fiddled
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that the police manipulate the figures.
Why Downing Street believes it won the War of Jenkin’s Letter
It thinks that there has been a backlash against the missive – especially from members of the 2010 intake and Tory MPs in marginal seats.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Oltep is going to win the next election for the Tories
But who or what is Oltep? Could he or she be an obscure but emerging Conservative intellectual?
His speech today confirms it: Osborne is becoming the face of Tory welfare policy
And that ain’t necessarily a good thing. The Tories’ moral mission could be forgotten amid all the talk of cuts.
The Right to Buy even appealed to Scargill – but which policies today have such a wide reach?
Evidence of the NUM leader’s hypocrisy is sweet – but it is also a spur to scrutinise today’s policy offering.
Cameron argues that householders should be given “cash payments” in return for nearby fracking
We should adopt the French system of free energy for those who live near new sites.
It’s time to put a stop to Vote Early, Vote Often in Britain
That our electoral system is compromised shames our standing as a liberal democracy.
Grayling should announce that a majority Conservative Government would quit the ECHR
It wouldn’t solve all Cameron’s problems with Europe, but it would be a bit of a start.
Mitchell in numbers
If David Cameron believes that the former Cabinet member is innocent, he should bring him back.
Zahawi should be free to speak his mind
Members of the Policy Board aren’t members of the Government.
Downing Street needs an Office for the Elimination of BS
Too many bad ideas see the light of day, when they should be killed off unceremoniously.
Voters should identify themselves – but this must not be ID cards by the back door
We need to improve protection against voter fraud, without resurrecting Labour’s database state.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron benefits from the admission that he is a toff
The Prime Minister dominated a House stilled by death