Ending check-off and the rolling mandate would be welcome – but we should still demand majority mandates for strike action.
Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.
His assurances about the publication of the Chilcot Report are designed to calm those calling for answers.
As David Cameron flies to Israel, we should study the Jewish state’s combination of technical know-how and entrepreneurial culture.
The Hitchen and Harpenden MP has all the necessary qualifications for the post.
A new generation of business people are out there, with the potential to boost the economy – and public services, too.
“I’m a very strong supporter of what he is doing”, he tells Andrew Neil.
More than three years after the election, why is an Ed Balls stooge on the public payroll backing a smacking ban?
If criticism of senior civil servants is regarded as beyond the pale, then accountability could follow with it.
If some of the growing pains can be tranquilised, the Government’s digital agenda could become one of its most significant legacies.
A tip from Iain Dale: if you see a journalist around the place, why not go and talk to them?
Francis Maude MP is Minister for the Cabinet Office and MP for Horsham It is over a year since Sir Bob Kerslake and I published the Civil Service Reform Plan. The plan was never our last word on reform. But it did include a series of practical actions which if they were implemented would begin […]
Conservatives are not the mouthpiece of the ‘already haves’; we are the party for all those who aspire to have, and to do, and to be.