Interview. Bailey commits to reopening all 38 police stations that have closed under Khan.
Sadiq Khan is a worried man and can be beaten in the London Mayoral election in May 2020. So says Shaun Bailey, selected as the Conservative candidate as long ago as September 2018, but still generally regarded as the underdog. In this interview, Bailey cheerfully...
Ryan Bourne: The real Budget question on borrowing is not “could we?” but “should we?”
Ryan Bourne holds the R Evan Scharf Chair in Public Understanding of Economics at the Cato Institute. Rishi Sunak is reportedly being pressured to “loosen” the Conservatives’ already loosened fiscal rules in his scheduled March 11th budget. Not long ago, an overall...
Daniel Hannan: Alarmism, doom-mongering, panic – and the coronavirus. We are nowhere near a 1919-style catastrophe.
Daniel Hannan is a writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. “Hospitals prepare for epidemic to sweep Britain” was the Sunday Times headline. The article beneath informed us that “up to 50...
Ed McGuinness: To be One Nation Conservatives means winning over Londoners too
Ed McGuinness is Chairman of Islington Conservative Federation and stood for Hornsey & Wood Green at the general election. Disraeli, the father of modern Conservatism, famously wrote in his novel Sybil, the nineteenth century equivalent of a docudrama, of “two...
Brexit: ringing the changes
Brexit: ringing the changes Richard North, 19/02/2020 Follow @eureferendum In Monday's speech from David Frost, what is turning out to be one of the key (as in contentious) parts is the claim that: We are clear that we want the Canada-Free Trade...
