The Conservative campaign needs some warmth, uplift and outreach. That means focus on what helped Thatcher and Macmillan to win elections – housing.
Does His Grace think the welfare reforms may have contributed to the fall in unemployment?
We have named four – IDS, Grayling, Gove and Hammond. The Times cites Letwin. Javid has said that he’s not afraid of Britain leaving.
The Home Secretary is second, and Gove wins plaudits among the write-ins.
But the biggest rise, this month, was achieved by Sajid Javid. The Culture Secretary is now in fifth place.
Osborne simply has no political room to do anything very much. The big decisions will come after the election – whoever is in office.
The majority of workers have had some wage growth – of four per cent per annum – since 2010.
The Conservatives can tell a similar story to Reagan’s in 1984: a record number of people are in work.
But the Conservatives need fundamental change.
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The road is long, the task is great and there is still ‘unstarted business’ – but the Welfare Secretary won’t give up on his campaign to change lives.
Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.
The think-tank reaches its tenth anniversary this year. As its recent awards ceremony showed, it does thing differently – and with great success.
Cameron shouldn’t abandon his campaign on the economy and security.
Large numbers of unemployed clamaints remain on benefits because they are too choosy in the jobs they are willing to do.