Plus: Open regional Tory offices but don’t take CCHQ out of London. The coming IR35 disaster. And: where will you be on January 31?
Both men sit broadly on the centre-right of the Parliamentary Party. That there is no candidate from the centre-left is a sign of internal change.
The Chief Whip is a farmer who recognises that “a lame ewe needs to be put down”.
Within Tehran’s divided and vengeful establishment, the race is on to avoid blame. But the regime as a whole has been found wanting.
The co-Chair of the Government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission wraps up our mini-series on housing.
It adds that “there will be a small office in London but maybe up by King’s Cross.”
I have lost count as to how many Tories I have recently met who assume that we will be in power for the next ten to fifteen years. That worries me.
In the second piece in our mini-series, the Chair of Homes for the North argues that driving public investment in housing towards the South East is not sustainable.
The principle behind any settlement for the Sussexes should be simple: one can’t be half in and half out.
Housing played a small role in the 2019 election, but the first piece in a new mini-series notes that home ownership is the key driver of voter behaviour.
We republish a personal Tory manifesto first published by this site almost exactly five years ago.
Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.
This imbalance is driven by the core science budget: the Research Councils (which fund projects) and Quality Related “QR” funding, which universities allocate.
The blunt reality is that China is a cyber risk and will remain so for years. It has a dreadful reputation for cyber attacks and intellectual property theft.
DFID managed its portfolio with far greater efficiency than the Foreign Office. But it should improve how it aligns traditional aid objectives with Britain’s goals.