David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the recent general election. It is time to talk about Brexit again. Understandably, the country’s attention has been focused upon the second wave of Covid-19 and...
Vienna shooting: Police launch manhunt for suspect after ‘Islamist terror’ attack
Advertisements Austrian police are searching for at least one suspect after a multiple gun attack in the capital, Vienna, that killed four people. Seventeen other people were wounded, some seriously, after gunmen opened fire at six different locations in the city...
WATCH: Miliband – “For the Biden camp Brexit has reduced the influence of the UK”
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...
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...
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...
The EU trade talks. Whether there’s a deal or not, we will be out of transition soon. Ministers should be ready to make the most of it.
It is sometimes useful, after a politician has made a statement, to try reversing it – and see if the change makes sense. “We should get ready for January 1 with arrangements that are more like Australia’s,” Boris Johnson said last Friday. So now imagine...
Claire Coutinho: Amidst the Great Global Data Divide, Britain must lead the charge for digital free markets
Claire Coutinho is MP for East Surrey. As the world’s first industrialised nation, Britain knows the value of getting ahead of the economic curve. Access to natural resources like coal and oil have driven historic and economic revolutions, but in the future the fuel...
After my night out on Saturday, I’m even more convinced that the 10pm curfew won’t work
As readers of ConservativeHome may know, I am hardly the biggest fan of the Government’s 10pm curfew policy. I believe it will cause huge economic harm; has been based on a flawed model from Belgium, and is dispiriting for national morale. Last Saturday night, I...
Ed McGuinness: A lesson for democracy in Europe from an abandoned airport in Cyprus
Ed McGuinness is a former Chairman of Islington Conservative Federation, founder of Conservatives in the City and contested Hornsey & Wood Green during last year’s general election. In the middle of the Mediterranean atop the Mesaoria plain lies a major...
