Denying the South East what it needs to grow and prosper with the misguided intention of being ‘fair’ to the rest of the country is detrimental to all in the end.
These are the first seats to have opened applications for candidate selection ahead of the next general election.
Tree planting is exactly the kind of popular, nature-based project that we should be exploring across the election cycle.
Buckinghamshire Council has a zero-tolerance policy on fly tipping, which is now leading to successful prosecutions.
Voters want toughness on crime and illegal immigration, plus greater investment into public services and local communities.
Without reform to planning laws, we will continue down the current trajectory at our peril.
Voters at this week’s by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup are angry with the Prime Minister, but do not appear to have settled on anyone better.
The Prime Minister must get out in front of the issue — and deal with the whole mess before it buries him.
The Government should apply the same energy it has towards achieving Net Zero on Getting Housing Done.
His biggest strength now is that to a mass of people who don’t follow politics he is a Given, A Fact – like Thatcher, Blair or the weather.
The cat of Tory tax rises has fewer than nine lives. Especially if these breach manifesto pledges and are generationally unfair.
The appointment of O’Brien to lead the forthcoming levelling-up white paper shows real commitment to the agenda.
The overseas aid and Universal Credit decisions suggest that, for the first time in a while, the cause of fiscal conservatism is gaining the upper hand.
While UKIP and Reform UK no longer present a credible threat to the Tories, the Lib Dems and Greens are building momentum.