Unlike France or Italy, we do not reserve specific constituencies for expatriates. Even at the peak of registrations, in 2017, only 20 percent of those eligible chose to register. Unless that figure now radically changes, expats are unlikely to play an outsized role this year.
Conservatives in other countries have managed to make housing a key plank of a winning platform. Our party still has a chance to do the same.
Yesterday’s announcements comprise a Heath Robinson machine of carrots, sticks, guidelines, exemptions, and assessments – and even he doesn’t predict they will deliver anything like the numbers required.
Investing a relatively small amount in covering the redistribution costs for farmers would unlock a vast reservoir of food that could be channelled to food redistribution charities.
This was in response to Camilla Tominey asking “Do your colleagues need to stop being NIMBY and be more YIMBY?”
Michael Gove and Nick Gibb’s efforts in raising standards have been hampered by both lockdown and subsequent ministerial churn.
Devolution was supposed to mean that different parts of the UK could experiment, with best practice eventually being taken up elsewhere to the benefit of all. Instead, devocrats have often done everything they can to thwart cross-border comparisons altogether.
This European “nationalism” could well produce a considerably more populist EU. Whether that would be good for the UK is another matter.
Michael Gove’s decision to broach the subject at the Covid Inquiry has stirred up some of the old partisan divisions from the pandemic.
Gove, Cummings and the Federation of Conservative Students are also denounced for destroying her hero.
Gove has said that the changes may not be enacted until “the justice system… is in a position to implement it effectively.” What does this mean, and how long will it take?
The Department for Education and Government Equalities Office must have a contingency plan available to deploy immediately, updating the necessary guidance to ensure that schools can remain true to their ethos.