There is a danger, not to mention an irony, in a conservatism that views a mother, carer, or retiree as just an inactive worker.
“These five promises are the people’s priorities. So, they’re my immediate priorities, too. But they’re not the limit of my ambitions for our country. They’re the foundation.”
Family is not always a comfortable topic, especially in the political world. Yet it has been proven to be the biggest determining factor in a child’s life outcomes.
Our new paper from the Adam Smith Institute finds there is more political space to deliver one than the politicians might imagine.
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.
We can avoid getting into an argument about whether or not the Government’s plan is an industrial strategy. The Conservative Party has got rather hung up on that term.
A lower tax burden will be impossible without less supply of government. And for there to be less supply, there must first be less demand.
At present, too many youngsters are become invisible when they leave the system, and not receiving the education they need.
The complicated and patchy system gives the state control over who and how families look after their young ones; parents just have to obey the rules and be grateful for the subsidies coming their way.
Expanding free support for the areas with the lowest birth rates, cutting bureaucracy, bolstering tenants’ rights, supporting cooperatives, and reforming regulation.
The first of a series of five articles on ConservativeHome this week about the main challenges that await the new Prime Minister.
The aim should not be to have the government try to boost birth rates, but to remove barriers that impede families from making their own self-funded, preferred decisions.
The effect of benefit policy changes on the incomes of working-age adults and children since 2010 has been an average loss of £375 per year compared with a boost to pensioners of £510 per year.
Parliament sports childcare facilities that most working parents could only dream of – precisely to let MPs focus on their job.
We have been looking at how we can strengthen our laws to provide the police with the clarity they need to stop serious disruption and will come forward with those plans in the coming weeks.