There is a good case for stronger regulation, perhaps even abolition. But a one-sided view of the rights and obligations of property isn’t it.
The West Midlands must compete with Barcelona, Boston, and Beijing – not with London and Manchester.
In Liverpool or Slough the commissioners are sent in. Why does Khan get a special dispensation for financial bailouts, and to carry on as he pleases?
“That is why if we want to halve inflation, if we want to get growth going and reduce debt, we need to make sure that the public finances are stabilised.”
Sophy Ridge presses the Housing Secretary on the former Prime Minister’s relationship with the chairman of the BBC.
Gove is right to look to the 1980s for lessons. But the danger is that he is learning the wrong ones.
Empowering left-wing leaders is the price that one has to pay for the local experimentation that devolving power and funds entails.
Teachers have legitimate grievances – including the administrative burdens imposed on them. Some union leaders have a political motive in exploiting these.
Germany has come closer to managing it – but take a look at the bill: an average of £71 billion between 1990 and 2014. That’s a little more than the £2 billion Sunak was sharing out yesterday.
Some regard it as a trivial issue. But the voters do not agree. A comprehensive, national, free graffiti removal service could make a big difference.
The Education Endowment Foundation is headed by a person who describes grouping children according to their learning needs and abilities as “symbolically violent”. It should be scrapped.
But it is hard to see how he can become leader again in this Parliament, in which so many of his own MPs refused to serve under him.
Under Blair, the party rejected its own traditions and signed up instead to the global, liberal economic order.
Rather than a gimmicky new layer of Government it would have been better to adopt a more localist approach of handing powers to existing local authorities.