Also: don’t cut members out of the contest. And the right exam question for candidates is: who can best win a general election?
Brokenshire feels the dismissal of Scruton “could have been handled differently”. But the work to ensure new homes are attractive will continue.
A Code of Practice, if given legal backing, should ensure that freeholders act as long-term responsible stewards of properties.
The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.
Proper visual preference surveys would help ensure attractive, new buildings – which people actually like.
There is a mismatch between Government announcements and Commons realities. It cannot attempt reforms without risking them being amended out of recognition.
His sacking is more evidence, were it needed, of the tensions that tear at the Tory coalition – and threaten to render it unsustainable.
Brokenshire must keep an eye on the potential knock-on from the latest flare-up over terror, reprisals, a captured pilot and the disputed territory.
By engaging properly with the local community, the developer has won local consent for four times as many homes as originally proposed.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
That’s the latest Government timetable for a significant say by the Commons on what happens next.
Should there be a right to extend your house upwards by a floor or two? The residents in each street should be allowed to decide.
Without strong baseline regulations there is no clarity for industry or robust protection for the public. Fire safety must be a given, not a lottery.