He’s a respected, experienced former Chief Whip – without the baggage of having sat around the Cabinet table during the past three years.
My constituents would accept an appropriate level of tax but they resent being lectured by those for whom taxation can never be high enough.
‘…the Brexit White Paper will inevitably put me in direct conflict with the views expressed by a large section of my constituents….’
After Poundbury, the Prince of Wales is doing it again – more beautiful new homes are on the way.
We open a ConservativeHome series, which will run each Monday during the election campaign, on the key contests in each region
We could increase the police budget by ten per cent and still have 90 per cent of the EU saving left for other priorities.
We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.
The last ten surveys contain mixed news for all parties and some noteworthy results.
The battlegrounds show a mix of results. But UKIP is down across the board.
St Austell & Newquay, Hampstead & Kilburn, Great Yarmouth…what Shelter found, using Lord Ashcroft’s polling as the basis for our research.
The second piece in our series explores the intense struggles across the South West of England.
I launch today a new section of my website featuring an index of the 114 seats I have surveyed since last May.
The average across these seats is: Rule Out Conservatives – 63 per cent; Rule out Labour – 75 per cent; Rule out LibDems – 74 per cent.
The final piece in a ConservativeHome mini-series this week on the railways after Covid.