The norms, culture, habits, and customs that built our society are worthy of protection and preservation. They are distinctly our own, and created one of the freest, safest, and richest countries that the world has ever seen.
Critical colleagues should reflect on this fact, and on the broader value of truth telling. Unless it can abandon its belief in tone over truth, the Conservative Party will not survive the decade.
Over the next few decades – as the OBR itself admits, the average low-skilled migrant labourer will cost the taxpayer £465,000 by the time they reach the age of 81.
Saving London’s nightlife through an ambitious programme of liberalisation is one way to begin rebuilding support amongst the next generation.
For many state schools, already thinly-resourced and stretched to capacity, a sudden influx of students from the independent sector would be a disaster.
That’s why we’ve launched the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, which will develop policy by young people, for young people, working to deliver greater opportunity for the next generation.
Fail to address the challenge head-on, and conservatives will find that our constitution continues to evolve away from its roots, each new Labour government bringing in new measures to ‘modernise’ our ‘anachronistic’ system.
The confidence to walk the streets safely, the right to interface directly with our elected representatives, the ability to speak our minds freely – these fruits of peaceable British toleration are being eroded by an extremist tendency that has grown unchecked for far too long.
The few solutions that have been offered up have tended to be blunt instruments, more likely to inflame tensions than deliver results in such a hostile institutional environment.
It’s past time that mainstream Tory politicians recognised these realities and engaged with it as an opportunity rather than as the broadcasting equivalent of a leper colony.
A British government which recognised the benefits of a stable, prosperous Africa and offered incentives to skilled professionals to return home would find itself lauded on the continent.
Stories like these aren’t designed for the public. Instead, they’re crafted by and for the people who consume news for a living. The jolly old game of electoral forecasting and political commentary has come to matter more than the impact of politics on voters.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.
Britain missed its chance to harness her oil and gas wealth as Norway did – but we have another valuable asset portfolio, with a record of long-termist management, close at hand.
Losing thousands of millionaires over the course of this Parliament will mean losing billions of pounds both in tax revenue and investment – cash the Chancellor has already spent in her fiscal plans.