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Henry Higgins: Food security is the missing pillar of Conservative Housing Policy
12+ hour, 46+ min ago (275+ words) Cllr Henry Higgins is the founder of Blackridge Planning Insight and a councillor in Hillingdon Earlier this year the government published its Land Use Framework for England. It is the most important document about British land use in a generation…...
Chris Philp: Labour have U-Turned on ILR
12+ hour, 36+ min ago (345+ words) Chris Philp MP is the Shadow Home Secretary. Shabana Mahmood promised that indefinite leave to remain would stop being handed out automatically. Andy Burnham has proved that he never intended to let her keep that promise. Autumn has now arrived....
Our top ten picks of the week
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (592+ words) Farage has given the Conservatives an opportunity and they have to seize it hard and fast Reform on the back foot, Burnham selling mood music with no money. A Conference coming where Farage’s was partially derailed, and a Budget to…...
Georgia Gilholy: The Assisted Dying Bill has a dangerous reality beneath it
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (653+ words) Georgia L Gilholy is a journalist. Today, Brontë’s semi-autobiographical protagonist might simply have been offered death as a remedy for her mental distress. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002 for adults suffering from a serious and incurable medical condition causing “constant and…...
Burnham is less 'same-same but different' - as same same same
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....
Like most other recent PMs, Sunak got to the top without serving a proper apprenticeship
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (1222+ words) Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton This book makes one think the better of Rishi Sunak. We are reminded of his high gifts and honourable conduct. Here is a statesman who felt a…...
Kimberley Harmer: Escaping domestic violence people can get out and the bruises fade - but the words don't
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1524+ words) Kimberley Harmer is CDG national Deputy chairman, CPF Regional Ambassador for Humber and Yorkshire, Senior Caseworker for Charlie Dewhirst MP. and a VAWG & Gender Based violence Advisor. There is a sentence that many survivors of domestic abuse understand instinctively: “The…...
Do Reform want to win?
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (597+ words) As is almost always the case, I was, yet again, proven right. In all honesty, it’s fast becoming a trend that I am growing tired of. Repeatedly, I have to shoehorn ‘I told you so’ into conversations at the pub....
John Oxley: British education isn't so much leaning in the PISA rankings - it's learned to fall over
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (387+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His SubStack is Joxley Writes. If Shakespeare were a political commentator, he might have observed that the bad things governments do live after them, and that the good is oft interred with…...
David Barton: Placemaking and its key role in communities
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (621+ words) There is so much that can be done now, such as the production of Neighbourhood Plans. The post David Barton: Placemaking and its key role in communities appeared first on Conservative Home....