People want to know what the party will do in the future. Conservative statecraft is about surveying the past to enable current and future prosperity. It’s also about the party’s willingness to change and adapt to the times.
The UK needs to entrust more power and resources to individuals and local groups themselves, rather than dispensing so much aid via big bureaucracies. Time to focus on what these communities do have, rather than what they lack.
Caring for someone with dementia is a profound experience that few can truly understand without living it. To prevent another decade of political inertia, we need real, substantive changes.
By addressing the primary obstacle to volunteering – namely, work commitments – we can ensure that individuals can give time to good causes without losing out on essential pay.
The eight part of our series on reducing demand for government, in which we set out a programme for change – focused on families, civil society and government.
The Conservative Party must not get locked into thinking that improving the efficiency of the public sector will make the sums add up either. We need to move away from ‘The Crisis Management State’ to ‘The Preventative State’.
Littering, fare-dodging, and shoplifting are minor offenses, but they undermine people’s sense of living in a safe, well-ordered public square.
A new ConHome series offering a very short introduction to some of those who are making or who have made an intellectual contribution to conservatism.
Gove is ready to localise as much either as he wants to or as his colleagues will let him, or both. I hope it’s work in progress.
The Faith New Deal Pilot Fund will encourage innovative partnership to thrive. We will achieve more through our common endeavours.
“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Here is my five point plan.
The challenges over crime and poor transport links are quite different to those in urban areas. So are the solutions.
The appointment of O’Brien to lead the forthcoming levelling-up white paper shows real commitment to the agenda.
The moment calls for urgently aligning the agenda for devolution and decentralisation with that of growth and recovery.
The Tories’ approach to policy is and has been too often – name policies at random until one sticks. A competent politician knows why their policy rests upon sound principles and why those principles are right.