Long before Boris Johnson gave his robust view of business opposition to Brexit, the Conservative Party had an ambivalent relationship to business interests. Mr...
As the immediate threat to the health service from the pandemic recedes, attention is turning to long-term care. Anyone wanting to be heard in the debate on ho...
The present government has made the territorial targeting of funds central to its programme. In the name of ‘levelling up’, it will distribute large tranches o...
In his Ditchley lecture earlier this year, Michael Gove argued for ‘bold and persistent experimentation’. Mistakes will be made, and Gove disarmingly acknowled...
The headline measure in the ‘Plan for People’s Jobs and Incomes’, announced by the chancellor on 20 March, was the Job Retention Scheme (JRS), under which the ...
Even among those who welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on the prorogation of parliament, there has been concern that the Court has entered into d...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
Recent years have not been good to independent committees and policy advisory bodies. Last December, the entire Social Mobility Commission, headed by Alan Milbu...
The collapse of Carillion has brought the usual suspects into the spotlight. Senior executives prospered on over-generous pay packets. Shareholders did not ask ...
In the UK’s uncertain economic landscape, one bright spot continues to shine. The country is wonderfully rich when it comes to property wealth.
The ONS put the...
For many people, the first weeks of February were a dispiriting time. After the brief cheer of the Supreme Court’s decision, MPs bowed to pressure to accept the...
MPs are back from their summer holidays and demanding to know the government’s negotiating position on Brexit. Will the UK remain in the European single market?...
