The early training that David Cameron and his team received in the Conservative Research Department proved decisive.
The support on offer must be value for money for the taxpayer – not to mention valuable for the parents and children who will actually use it.
The Government has already doubled funding for relationship support, and help during early years is bound to be in the agenda.
The CPF tapped into our members’ enthusiasm for grass roots policy discussion, and many of the results are now in the Government programme.
Plus: John Randall’s Serbian restaurant. Soames goes AWOL. Cash goes ballistic. And: Did Letwin and Redwood write the briefs for Page 3?
Of course our efforts at Rochester weren’t helped by the glitches in the new CCHQ computer “Darth Vader”.
…and about time, too – it’s a good idea and a potential vote-winner.
As outlined, it suggests continuity with the Coalition’s approach. But there are tensions sbetween its aims and those of a future Labour finance team.
Graham Brady MP, Sajid Javid MP, Timothy Kirkhope MEP, Emma Pidding & Tim Montgomerie will be among those speaking.
And much of the £54 billion used to encourage saving is taken by the pensions industry
Kenneth Clarke is the Minister without Portfolio and Oliver Letwin is Minister of State at the Cabinet Office It was Ronald Reagan who told us that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were “I'm from the government and I'm here to help”. It is a sentiment which millions of businessmen and women […]
In the second part of ConHome’s series, the author sets out a programme that would breathe life into the Government’s “family test” for policy.