Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. Politics is polar – left versus right; liberal versus authoritarian; europhile versus eurosceptic. But out in the real world, and to the frequent […]
Greg Clark is the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. Last week I escaped the confines of Westminster to meet with business and city leaders in Liverpool, Hull, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton and Coventry. […]
Greg Clark is the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. When I ran the Conservative Party’s Policy Unit in opposition we had a straightforward task: to develop the policies that we […]
Greg Clark is the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. Whitehall has a long history of turf wars. Most vicious of all was the struggle between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. This – his third Letter – reflects on last Wednesday's Autumn Statement. Follow Greg on Twitter. Last week’s Autumn Statement confirmed that progress has been made […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. He starts with this celebration of the recruitment of Mark Carney as Governor of the Bank of England. Follow Greg on Twitter. The ‘Great Man’ theory […]
Greg Clark MP is Minister for Decentralisation and Cities and John Howell MP is his PPS and the principal author of Open Source Planning. Yesterday the Government published the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework following last year’s public consultation. Taken together with the important changes introduced in the Localism Act, this amounts […]
Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge Wells is Minister for Decentralisation and Cities. Follow Greg on Twitter. Something significant happened last week, but because it didn’t happen in the Westminster village you may not have heard about it. Liverpool City Council voted to be run by a directly-elected mayor. By the end of this year, nearly […]
Rt Hon Greg Clark MP is Minister for Decentralisation and Cities. Follow Greg on Twitter. Today’s Cities Outlook report provides a timely reminder that the battle for Britain’s economic future must be won in our cities. London today – in its energy, beauty, diversity, and as a cradle of opportunity and excellence – is one […]
By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday at questions to Eric Pickles and his team of ministers from the Department of Communities and Local Government, a number of Tory MPs took the opportunity to highlight how their local Conservative-run councils are coping with the financial squeeze. Doubtless their local papers will be encouraged to cite the praise heaped […]
By Tim Montgomerie Highlights from yesterday's Commons debate on the Localism Bill. Rory Stewart summarised why localism works: "This is a strange time and place because all hon. Members believe in that decentralisation, whether we call it localism, hyper-localism or double hyper-localism, but we are obstructed by our anxieties about power, knowledge and legitimacy. Let […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Most Tuesdays he will be writing this new 'Letter from a Treasury Minister' for ConservativeHome readers. Follow Greg on Twitter. Britain’s financial services sector is our single most successful industry. It is our biggest exporter – providing the foreign currency we need […]