If the Chancellor is that desperate for revenue, she should reverse Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election cuts. The Tory attack line will be the same whatever she chooses.
The new Prime Minister informed his eager, victorious followers that life is real and life is earnest.
A final set of questions relates to whether, if we are going to spend £28 billion to improve economic growth, spending it on the green economy is the best way of doing so.
This imbalance in job security, income and pension provision is a glaring reality that too often goes unmentioned, and should be a priority and powerful mobilising cause for the Conservative Party.
His achievements as a journalist, historian, and broadcaster were immense. He should be read by all those seeking to challenge the wrongful dogmatisms of the “progressive” Left.
The criticism of him in the newspaper most read by Party activists took little account of the effects of war and pandemic on the choices he must make.
The Chancellor’s team reportedly wants to cut it from 20 per cent to 19 per cent in 2023. Here’s why that wouldn’t be a good idea.
Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.
Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.
We unleashed Nick Timothy on the world as a columnist. Meet the husband-and-wife combo of Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.
The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.
If anti-private landlord agendas are allowed to shape Government policy, things will only get worse for them and for their tenants alike.
Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.
Wanted: a grand bargain with voters, whereby some rises at the top end are traded off for others nearer the bottom.
We can’t rely on policy wonks to win the public over. Politicians need to inject the emotion. If the Conservative Party is to have a future, it must do more than factcheck.