The best reason to vote Conservative. Tory reformers are delivering Grown-Up Government.
Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.
Cameron, victim of Merkel’s problems…
…and architect of some of his own. What will become of the renegotiation now?
In celebration of the Centre for Social Justice
The think-tank reaches its tenth anniversary this year. As its recent awards ceremony showed, it does thing differently – and with great success.
Why you should add CapX to your reading list
As its Twitter feed puts it, the newsletter is a new pro-market global news service, making the case for popular capitalism.
Sex, drugs and Brussels law (and Cameron)
The EU’s demand for £1.7billion raises a number of essential questions. Not least, what can Cameron do now?
Who should lead the Metropolitan Party?
It has plenty of supporters among Conservative journalists. But why not among Conservative politicians?
A tale of two Tory primaries. Rochester, 2014: turnout, 5700. Gosport, 2010: turnout, 12500.
The figure for the Kent seat is a disappointment for CCHQ – but it’s not disastrous in itself, and will help build a stronger voter base for now and next May.
The bias in Osborne’s family policy is a gift to Farage
Whether parents work in the labour market or not is none of the Chancellor’s business – as long as they aren’t claiming welfare benefits.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Miliband waits in vain for something to turn up
By so obviously funking the argument on the economy, the Leader of the Opposition leaves Cameron in command of the field.
Tory MEPs to disobey Downing Street over Juncker vote
Despite pressure from No 10, the Tory delegation will not be whipped to vote for the euro-federalist and his team.
Immigration won’t win the Conservatives the election
Cameron shouldn’t abandon his campaign on the economy and security.
The Tories cannot forget the Great Promise that they made
Which was, and still is, to reduce the deficit. All of the current talk about tax cuts risks undermining that.
Why is Downing Street pressuring Tory MEPs to vote for Jean-Claude Juncker?
There’s no good reason to make rebels of MEPs who simply want to oppose the arch-federalist, as Cameron did mere months ago.
Cameron shows he is taking the concerns of UKIP voters seriously
The Conservatives have started listening to, rather than just hectoring, UKIP voters
Public health vs private life: It was never going to end with smoking
There is nothing uniquely evil about tobacco: the precedents set in the crusade against it will be used in time against all our vices.