“It is completely out of order,” Gove reacts to video showing staff at Conservative HQ celebrating Xmas while country was in a Covid lockdown.
So some will say that his attack on Labour’s confusions and contradictions is pots and kettles. All the same, its contents are well worth assimilating.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
There may be a greater role for community sentences, but not as an alternative because the state cannot deliver, or will not pay for, a proper prison system.
Since 2010, the Party has a truly terrible record of retaining its reformers – especially those capable of understanding and reshaping the structures of government.
No, his does not mean that the UK has become “ungovernable” or that it will be “impossible for Ministers to do their job” or that his departure is a victory for “the Remainer blob” or evidence that the public sector is full of “snowflakes”.
Johnson’s deadline for ending petrol and diesel car sales was always over-optimistic. In our darkening international environment, it is an act of ludicrous folly.
Many voters want moral seriousness, most politicians have difficulty finding the language needed to provide it, but the present Prime Minister thinks he may be able to.
I want to pay tribute to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up who, backed by the Chancellor and Prime Minister, pushed through this deal, which rewrites so many of the long-standing and outdated rules between Whitehall and the regions.
The Levelling-Up Secretary was asked by Sophy Ridge as to how the public could trust the police in light of recent scandals.
Michael Gove’s latest steps to strengthen the hand of social tenants are a good first step, but Tory campaigners need to put this issue front and centre.
The Levelling-Up Secretary was speaking at the launch of Onward’s new project designed to kickstart Conservative thinking ahead of the next election.
New research for Power to Change finds that progress on the Government’s agenda has been patchy, and voters have noticed.