Since 2010, the Party has a truly terrible record of retaining its reformers – especially those capable of understanding and reshaping the structures of government.
It’s the sort of policy for which a shadowy ulterior motive would be a comfort. But alas, nobody in politics is ever actually playing 4D chess.
Whole blocks of flats in London are sold off-plan to international investors, doing nothing to help Generation Rent.
If his mission is successful, he will hugely bolster the long-term future of the Conservative party.
Building more houses is a necessary but not sufficient means of ensuring rising home ownership for younger people.
Our amendments to the Fire Safety Bill would prevent remedial cladding costs due to historic building defects from being passed on.
A new book explains why building land is prohibitively expensive.
For me, the most concerning thing wasn’t being behind among the very young, but being behind among everyone under age 47.
Government schemes to promote home buying are not reaching a large part of the population who aspire to own their own homes.
The old, with their savings, could help the young. The economically active young could help the old, by giving them an income.
They need time and resources spent on preparing them for employment and for life – and for their Government to adapt as quickly as they are doing.
We estimate that the number of retirees in England’s rental sector will swell to nearly one million by 2035. This marks a three-fold increase from its current level of 370,000.
To reduce investment in infrastructure or R&D is to take away from the future – just as surely as running up unsustainable debt does.
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
It is time that Conservatives accepted, once and for all, that juicing supply is not and will never be a solution to a decades-long supply shortage.