8.45pm WATCH: Martin Callanan MEP rejects a UKIP/Tory pact: "I think we should stand as Conservative candidates across the UK" 5pm WATCH: Theresa May records pro-gay marriage video for Out4Marriage campaign 4pm LISTEN: Michael Gove: "We now have more than half of secondary schools either academies or on the way to becoming academies" 2.30pm Sarah Newton MP on Comment: […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter James Forsyth's Spectator interview with Nigel Farage, which Tim Montgomerie wrote about on this site yesterday, is a sign of how far the UKIP leader has come – and how seriously Fleet Street now takes both him and it. The party is sometimes nudging the Liberal Democrats into fourth […]
A defence of grammar schools from, say, Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail would surprise no one, but when it comes from Mary Ann Sieghart in the Independent feathers are ruffled. Referencing the ongoing debate about social mobility, Sieghart reminds us that education really can make a difference: “…pupils who had free school meals and […]
I was pleased when I heard that Lord Adonis had Ed Miliband's policy advisor as I hoped it would mean the Party resolving to support the Government's policies of allowing free schools to open and more schools to convert to become academies. That would have been good for the Labour Party but it would also […]
Thom Wiseman says York Council are stopping the public having their say on community grant York had a great policy to allow a little bit of democracy when it comes to deciding who receives the community grants. However this has all been changed under the banner of ‘cuts’. The previous system worked well, any community […]
Harry Benson is Communications Director of the Marriage Foundation and author of Let’s Stick Together – the relationship book for new parents. Having spent years teaching thousands of parents how to make their marriages and relationships work well, I am pleased that the Prime Minister wants to improve support for new parents. Much of what […]
Mark Prisk MP is Minister for Business and Enterprise. As someone who’s actually run a business, I know how much unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape can stifle enterprise and innovation. Under the last Labour Government, we saw the equivalent of six new regulations every working day, totalling over 1,500 a year. So the task on […]
One of the current policy puzzles is why companies are sitting on large cash balances instead of investing them as the government hoped they would. Indeed, some in the government appear now to hope to apply moral pressure on companies to invest, as if they were letting the side down by not investing. Let us […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood. Follow Chris on Twitter. How we should tackle the issue of "health tourism" is one which has recently been raised on ConservativeHome, while stories of foreign nationals, ineligible for free NHS care still obtaining operations and treatment appear frequently in newspapers and the media? The background […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Forget austerity. Forget Leveson. Forget the NHS reforms. Forget the welfare and school reforms. The biggest landscape-changing political event of the parliament so far has been the formation of the Coalition. The first impact was immediate. Approximately two million left-leaning supporters of the Liberal Democrats walked into the arms of […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Well, nearly. Tim Montgomerie with AFC Bluebirds Captain, Hudson Roe ConHome is delighted to be the new multi-pound sponsors of AFC Bluebirds – a five-a-side football team of Tory parliamentary researchers. In my dreams I see this as a first step towards becoming a sponsor of Man Utd and having […]