Javid comes straight in at fifth place; Williamson’s score is in freefall; and the podium positions are unchanged.
Sooner or later this problem is going to hit the Tories – hard – due to the demographics the party needs to attract at the next election.
Bob Seely is wrong – building more homes is not just about ‘local people’.
The Health Secretary now languishes very near the bottom, while Truss secures her sixth month at the top and Johnson recovers a little.
Ultimately, we have to prevent vulnerable people from ever reaching the streets. We should seize this opportunity to work out how.
It is nonsense to suggest that ‘levelling up’ demands misdirecting building targets to places where housing is already affordable.
Ministers may be right in assuming that nothing like the full complement of those entitled to settle do so. But what if they’re wrong?
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
The rate of successful appeals is apparently running higher even than it did during the 1980s.
The sad truth is that many local Labour councils and local bureaucracies don’t want it: they’re scared of it.
The calling-in of a planning application to open a coalmine at Whitehaven suggests prioritising green optics over Northern livelihoods.
Robert Jenrick MP, Saqib Bhatti MP, the One Powerhouse Consortium and AECOM discuss how to solve regional inequality.
Plus: Why did it take the police so long to investigate the endemic corruption within Liverpool City Council?
I take issue with Henry Hill’s recent article for ConservativeHome on the matter. Here’s why.