Scott Benton is the MP for for Blackpool South. This is a sponsored post by the Betting and Gaming Council. A year ago, I was proud to stand for election on a Conservative Party manifesto which pledged to review the UK’s gambling laws. The 2005 Gambling Act, the...
Stanley Johnson: Next year’s climate change conference should take its lead on carbon pricing from this Agreement
Stanley Johnson is an environmentalist, author, former Conservative MEP and parliamentary candidate. His new novel, The Warming, will be published next year. With fellow environmentalists Bill Oddie, Baroness Young and Laura Sandys, I was a founder-member of a...
Newslinks for Tuesday 29th December 2020
Brexit 1) ERG set to approve Johnson’s Brexit trade deal “Senior Eurosceptics have said that the prime minister’s Brexit deal will help to restore sovereignty amid growing signs that they will give it their support today. The European Research Group of Tory MPs...
Our Cabinet League Table feels the Brexit Trade Deal Bounce
Every entrant to our Cabinet League Table are up – even those who remain in negative figures. Here are three examples chosen at random. Last month, Steve Barclay was fifth on 50 per cent; this month, he is fifth on 58 per cent. Grant Shapps was more or...
Stephen Booth: This Agreement delivers both the UK and the EU’s main objectives. It gives us freedom – which comes at a price.
Stephen Booth is Head of the Britain in the World Project at Policy Exchange. Much of the analysis of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement will flow from underlying prejudices. “The UK shouldn’t have left”, “we don’t need a trade deal with the EU”, “the UK should...
David Lidington: We have left the EU and there is no turning back. Here’s what our new relationship with Europe should look like.
David Lidington is a former Cabinet Minister and Europe Minister. He is Chair of the Royal United Services Institution (RUSI), and of the Conservative Group for Europe (CGE). Ursula von der Leyen’s tone was elegiac, Boris Johnson’s conciliatory. Their first public...
Mark Ling: Set Ipswich free. It is being “Suffolkated”.
Mark Ling is a businessman specialising in transportation. He is the Chair of the Broomhill Pool Trust and a co-founder of Orwell Ahead. From the much neglected perspective of an urban Conservative local voter, I find it extraordinary how little interest and...
Johnson’s rating for dealing with Covid rises in our latest survey
Last month, those totals were 37 per cent, 52 per cent and 11 per cent respectively. Now, only marginally more panel members think that the Prime Minister is dealing with Covid badly than well. Furthermore, there has been a shift in their view over time against...
Michelle Donelan: The Government’s new Turing scheme will open up the world to British students
Michelle Donelan is Minister of State for Universities. When things become too familiar, it can be comfortable to sit back and enjoy their benefits, never stopping to consider whether the old, established parameters still meet the needs of the present day. The thought...
Sunak is our panel’s minister of the year
In 2019’s end-of-year survey, ConservativeHome panelists named Rishi Sunak as their “One to Watch for 2020“, and what a sound assessment! 2020 has seen Sunak catapulted from relative political obscurity to fast becoming a household name. He has been...
