If Biden does win the election, do you think he values the ‘special relationship’? “There’s no question in my mind that for the Biden camp, Brexit has reduced the influence of the UK” says former foreign secretary David Miliband. Follow...
Christopher Fraser: Brexit gives us a huge opportunity for agricultural innovation
Christopher Fraser is the Independent Chairman of the Crop Protection Association. He is a former Conservative MP for South West Norfolk. The most important international agreements often go to the wire. With little more than two months remaining until the Brexit...
Adrian Mason: The Internal Market Bill will help North Wales compete
Adrian Mason is a lawyer and a former Deputy Chair Political of the North Wales Conservatives. Looking for good news in Wales at the moment has become a difficult task. We are living under a Covid 19 cloud with an incompetent Welsh Labour Government (WG) meting out...
Johnson’s quiet shift to a more permissive migration policy
In the run up to last year’s general election, one of Boris Johnson’s most significant promises was to reduce immigration if the Conservatives won a majority. He spoke about the Government’s proposed new Australia-style points-based system, saying that “numbers will...
Henry Hill: Tories claim Drakeford has turned Wales into ‘test-bed for left-wing socialist authority’
Tories claim Drakeford has turned Wales into ‘testbed for socialism’ This morning’s papers report that Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to convene a four-way summit to help ensure that the whole United Kingdom faces the same rules about...
Gerald Howarth: To ensure post-Brexit success, the Government must bolster Britain’s military power
Sir Gerald Howarth was the MP for Aldershot from 1997-2017, and Minister for International Security Strategy 2010-2012. As a former Minister for International Security Strategy, I warmly welcomed a review intended to place defence and security within a foreign policy...
Richard Holden: The Japan trade deal, future CPTPP membership – deliverers of wages, prosperity and work to my Durham constituents.
Richard Holden is MP for North West Durham. Maddisons Cafe, Front Street, Consett In the year I was born, 1985, Consett had unemployment of 35 per cent – multiples of the average across the country. The decline and, finally, the end of heavy industry and mining in the...
Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers
Sitting on a bench on a sunny afternoon in Hampstead, on a grassy bank with a view of Erno Goldfinger’s modern house at 2 Willow Road, David Goodhart warns of “the dark side of creating a cognitive meritocracy”. In his new book, Head, Hand, Heart:...
Robert Halfon: We should be pro-private enterprise, anti-mega corporates – which plunder the taxpayer again and again
Robert Halfon is MP for Harlow, a former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman, Chair of the Education Select Committee and President of Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists. Lessons from New Zealand The re-election of Jacinda Ardern, winning an overall majority and...
Matthew Elliott: Please apply to invest in Britain’s future and win £10,000
Matthew Elliott was Editor-at-Large of BrexitCentral Coming from the world of think-tanks and campaign groups, I have a strong interest in the policy ecosystem that surrounds political parties. Ahead of Tony Blair’s victory in 1997, think-tanks such as Demos and the...
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