We need to give more time and resource to those bringing up children. Such parents need a much better package from the state to look after a baby in the first year of its life.
Aspects of infant development have been detrimentally affected by Covid, including rates of obesity, physical inactivity, and poor sleep.
The marriage rate is down. But people are being choosy, looking for love rather than doing it out of economic necessity. So, marriages now last longer.
By adapting the Statutory Maternity Pay system, the Chancellor’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will improve the lives of thousands of people.
The fifth piece in our series this week about what the Tory Manifesto should look like.
Interdependence and independence need each other, and the Conservative Party should stand for both.
What is it – and how can we strengthen it? That is the focus of Bright Blue’s latest report, published today.
Working-aged benefits have been deeply and disproportionately cut. But if the welfare system is to be suitably resourced in the future, the public need to believe it is fair.
Faced with the real electoral threat of a nationalising, socialistic Labour Government, these principles should matter and be championed now more than ever.
We need liberal – not closed – local communities where empowered, innovative and tolerant individuals can bring positive change.
It is wrong for those at the top to take advantage of the generosity of government, students, and other, far less well-remunerated, academic staff.
This second piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that May must show those on modest incomes the good that Government can do.
The second piece in our pre-Budget series on how to eliminate the structural deficit.
Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.
The thirteenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.