Dan Neidle says that if the former Chairman had adopted a less aggressive posture, he would have walked away.
If local residents have a legitimate interest in whether new housing gets built, the community has a legitimate interest in the efficient use of existing housing.
The tragedy of the puritan is that they will never actually be free of “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time”.
Why should a tiny minority of taxpayers domiciled in other countries pay the Treasury for money they earn elsewhere?
It’s hard to know how to reply to voters who say “your mistakes were massive, and we’re paying the price”.
Since the Crash we’ve failed to grow at a per capita rate of more than roughly one per cent, home ownership is stagnant, and savings rates have steadily declined.
Could he win? What if he faced “letters” during the campaign? What if he lost the by-election – and the Party girded itself up for its fifth leadership election in some seven years? What figure do you think the Conservative poll rating would settle at?
It strikes the right balance between her goal of a “low-tax economy” and Johnsonian “investment in education, infrastructure and technology”
Cutting the 45p rate puts fresh pressure on the SNP’s revenue-hostile policies; spending cuts will squeeze their budgets again.
Concern over too-low interest rates and growing fear of an anti-growth Labour government are much more likely culprits.
The Foreign Secretary will have to spend more to help with energy bills and finance tax cuts. As borrowing becomes more expensive, this will require either spending cuts, tax rises, or both.
As a constituency chairman, I talk to my activists and a lot of voters. Here’s what they’re trying to tell the Party.
His team appear to believe the problem is that activists don’t know their candidate well enough, but it is quite the opposite.
Where the Conservatives have scrapped centuries-old taxes, Labour and Plaid Cymru can’t stop dreaming up new ones.
The problem facing Britain is not that prices are too high, but that the safety net – which Tories have always supported – is too low.