A pro-science and technology agenda requires political decisions no-one is currently pursuing. Taking on some public sector trade unions. Engaging constructively with the EU. Reforming planning law. Embracing the Oxford to Cambridge arc.
The tax-cutters have tested their established strategies to destruction. When they got their woman into Downing Street, it took just 45 days for their agenda to crash-and-burn.
The criticism of him in the newspaper most read by Party activists took little account of the effects of war and pandemic on the choices he must make.
This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.
There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.
Mercifully, there remain a few Thatcherites, even in the Cabinet, who believe in the power of liberty, responsibility, commerce and voluntary action.
May needs to demonstrate that Whitehall is prepared – deal or no deal. Crossing one’s fingers and hoping for transition is not an alternative, or shouldn’t be.
We would be better off out, in terms of jobs, wages and growth – and the cost of leaving would be smaller than its benefits.
Although Cameron and the Chancellor expected the deficit to be far smaller by now, they still have a credible strategy for dealing with it.
Strong victories for strong leaders are usually the hallmark of a crisis, not of a successful country (which the UK surely is).
Having done their best to wreck the pension system under Brown, now Labour want a chance to finish it off entirely.
Allister Heath, Editor of City AM, introduces a new report from NothingBritish.com that exposes the economic illiteracy of the BNP. SUNLIGHT is always the best disinfectant, in politics as in everything else. The BNP’s calling card, its rabid dislike of immigrants, is well-known – but the party’s views on economics, which are equally pernicious, have […]
In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.