If she really is to “dedicate my premiership” to fixing housing growth and home ownership, she will need to throw a chunk of her caution to the winds.
How is the new Department for International Trade getting on?
This potential to ease the housing supply is being missed.
Pledges on this scale cannot be delivered in this Commons without Conservative consensus. They can only be charmed – not bullied – onto the statute book.
We reveal who will sit on the Communities and Local Government, Environment and Rural Affairs, Justice, Public Accounts and Science and Technology committees.
The governing duopoly of the Prime Minister and Chancellor should be replaced by a collegiate top team – including the present ’22 Chairman as a new Chief Whip.
Sajid Javid, Esther McVey. Nicky Morgan. Greg Hands – it’s turning out much as predicted. Women, Blue Collar Tories and Friends of George (not necessarily in that order).
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 […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter In the Commons yesterday, a debate was held on whether to suspend Sunday trading restrictions for the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer. The Bill passed through the House, with only extremely minor rebellion from the Tory benches. This was surprising because there was some consternation felt by […]
Mark Prisk is the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. Every government wants to leave its mark on the statute book. The last government did so by introducing the equivalent of six new regulations every working day, or 30 every single week. This government will do so by reducing the regulatory burden that weighs […]
Mark Prisk is Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. In recent months, people have rightly been asking what progress we have made freeing enterprise from red tape and bureaucracy, so I wanted to update ConservativeHome readers on what we have achieved since the start of the year. The ‘One In, One Out’ system of […]
Mark Prisk MP is Minister for Housing. Follow Mark on Twitter. In the 80s, under Right to Buy, Magaret Thatcher helped millions of people living in council housing achieve their aspiration of owning a home – and I'm proud to be continuing that work today. However, it has not been easy. The Labour Party has continually […]