If we are serious about raising living standards, increasing productivity and creating opportunities, then we must recognise a simple truth: businesses create jobs when they are confident about the ...

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PMQs Kemi Badenoch criticises the Prime Minister’s Defence Investment plan as ‘too weak, too short, and too late’ Nick Timothy: We will dismantle organisations like the Muslim Brotherhood that ...

Alex Morton is Head of Political Economy at Onward. While the result in Makerfield was the most important by-election result in decades and has resulted in a change of Prime Minister, the result in ...

Elsewhere, the Conservatives snatch Teesside and gain the West of England in a fine day for the Party. And Burnham wins big for Labour in Manchester.

Katie Lam is a shadow Home Office minister and MP for Weald of Kent. In his farewell speech to the nation, Keir Starmer talked of “what [he’d] achieved in just two years”. You’d be forgiven for ...

Perhaps the reason is that some of them were involved in pushing out Boris Johnson. Or maybe it is that others tried to keep him on. Or perhaps it’s simply that yesterday’s candidates are old hat, ...

For anyone with a mobile phone, it’s not rocket science to see why the Conservative Party is a decade behind in engaging people of my age.

Over the next few years things are only likely to get worse. Labour will continue to borrow huge sums, because they don’t understand that someone has to be willing to buy all the debt they issue. Like ...

Cheshire West & Chester – Christleton & Huntington. (Conservative held) Dacorum – Apsley & Corner Hall. (Lib Dem held) Slough – Cippenham Green. (Conservative held) ...

Rachel Wolf is a partner in Public First. She had co-charge of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. She was an education and innovation adviser at Number 10 during David Cameron’s premiership and was ...