While everyone is talking about the Government’s economic plan and polling woes, we shouldn’t lose sight of their broader agenda. The Online Safety Bill appears set to glide through Parliament as if nothing has changed over the last few months. As a self-identified partisan of the ‘more freedom, less intervention’ side of the Conservative Party, […]
When MPs debate the Nationality and Borders Bill this afternoon, they will have the chance to do right by the young people who had stood up to Chinese tyranny. Damian Green’s amendment, which has the support of high-profile Tories such as Tom Tugendhat, Nus Ghani and Iain Duncan Smith, would extend the existing BNO visa […]
First Pfizer, then Moderna and now AstraZeneca – it appears we are on the cusp of a viable vaccine for a mass immunisation programme. While these developments are hugely welcome, they do come with some important caveats. The next phase of overcoming the pandemic, designing and rolling out vaccinations, could prove the most challenging yet. […]
In 2008, Boris Johnson defied expectations in being elected London’s major. And while policing was a significant plank of his electoral pitch, his message was also one of optimism about London and about Londoners. With characteristic charm and charisma, Boris built a winning campaign based both on making London safer, and on exciting, popular policies. […]
The Government has finally read the writing on the wall for Public Health England (PHE). According to reports, the failing public health body will be abolished and its role preparing for pandemics moved to a new National Institute for Health Protection. PHE’s only unmitigated success has been drawing ire from both the left and the […]
A year into his premiership, Boris Johnson seems to have abandoned his optimistic, ‘live and let live’ disposition which so many of the public voted for, in favour of a more subdued and cautious prime ministerial demeanour. How else to explain that a leader whose libertarian instincts are so well-documented now wants to impose stringent […]
Project Birch, the Government’s latest Covid-induced bailout scheme, is designed to rescue firms whose failure would cause “disproportionate harm” to the economy. But unless the Treasury is extremely clear about its bailout criteria and even clearer about how it intends to pay for them, then the project itself poses a disproportionate threat to the economy. […]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak provided a stark warning earlier this week when he said there may not be an immediate “bounceback”. He is right. That’s why it’s now more important than ever to unleash British enterprise and secure our prosperity. The economic scarring from coronavirus is already well underway. Thousands of businesses have closed their doors, […]
The last few weeks has seen a great deal of ideological navel-gazing; from the end of globalism to the cancellation of capitalism, pundits are convinced this time is different, everything has changed, and once the dust settles they’ll have been proven right all along. The strawman of their enemy, often called ‘neoliberalism’, finally reduced to […]
