The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
These two institutions at the very centre of Government do not appear to be operating the way they should.
We don’t just need to build back better with economic policy, but use the challenges of the pandemic to address social concerns too.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
Highly-educated parents transmit their knowledge and understanding to their children. For others it is less easy.
My new pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies sets out a programme which would empower voters truly to Take Back Control.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
One wonders whether he feels a kind of disappointed love for the Tories – or for them as he thinks they ought to be.
Patrick Bishop’s biography of Airey Neave, who in 1975 showed how to run a successful leadership campaign.
That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.
There is compelling evidence that there are only two tenures – social housing and home ownership – by which wellbeing of people is supported effectively.
Joseph knew the importance a Conservative ‘counter-ideology’ to the intellectual ratchet of socialism.
Theresa May thought aloud about low interest rates. Mark Carney hit back and no more was heard from her. Time for others to do so?
“Competition doesn’t mean privatisation.” The full text of his speech to the Social Market Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The UK still a country prioritises freedom. But its citizens are far more deferential to the state than their American cousins – and the language of freedom is far less ideological and far more personal.