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Conservative Home13 Apr 2026

David Page: Labour’s centralist planning policies are flawed

Labour’s push for 1.5 million homes risks concentrating power at the centre while failing to solve the real constraint on housing delivery. The post David Page: Labour’s centralist planning policies are flawed appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home10 Apr 2026

Anna Ridgway: We need to start thinking differently about the state pension

Let us at least be honest about what the triple lock has become: not a narrow guarantee against poverty, but a very large and politically protected transfer to the most electorally powerful age bloc in the country. The post Anna Ridgway: We need to start thinking differently about the state pension appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home10 Apr 2026

Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling – The crucial “Centrists” who reject both Reform and the Greens

A general election is still years away but if the landscape then resembles the current state of play, one key question will be which putative governing coalition is least chaotic – and this Centrist group of voters may hold the answer. The post Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling – The crucial “Centrists” who reject both Reform and the Greens appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home9 Apr 2026

John Oxley: The war with Iran might, potentially, be over but for Labour the problems have just begun

Starmer's government was already struggling to articulate a coherent economic vision before the crisis; the renewed inflationary pressure now arrives like a second wave before the first has receded. Higher prices strained public finances, renewed pressure on wage settlements. The post John Oxley: The war with Iran might, potentially, be over but for Labour the problems have just begun appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home6 Apr 2026

Festus Akinbusoye: Ownership, order, and opportunity. The three pillars of a revived capital

We should be focused on increasing the number of homes, particularly family homes, while also improving their aesthetics. Too many developments look like very tall, soulless, human greenhouses that some of us would not even place our house plants in; they are that ogreish. The post Festus Akinbusoye: Ownership, order, and opportunity. The three pillars of a revived capital appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home2 Apr 2026

Aled Richards-Jones: Four years, 41 broken pledges – Wandsworth Labour’s record in office

Our manifesto won’t make promises we can’t keep, but will set out a credible plan – for fixing the finances, getting the basics like bin collection back on track, putting more police officers on Wandsworth’s streets, giving more renters the chance to own, and more.   The post Aled Richards-Jones: Four years, 41 broken pledges – Wandsworth Labour’s record in office appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 Apr 2026

Jamie Tunsley: The Lib Dem nuclear plans are M.A.D.

Diverting the current course would be a costly exercise that would not provide a significant improvement in security and bring into question the future of the ‘special relationship’. The post Jamie Tunsley: The Lib Dem nuclear plans are M.A.D. appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home31 Mar 2026

Fleur Butler: The case for women in power is not fairness – it’s competence

Women bring different instincts to group decision-making. They are less inclined towards automatic loyalty and more likely to interrogate assumptions before committing to a course of action.  The post Fleur Butler: The case for women in power is not fairness – it’s competence appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home31 Mar 2026

Sanjoy Sen: The truth about the North Sea – Britain needs to extract what’s left and pursue long-term alternatives

Nobody can predict how long the current Iran oil price spike will last but one thing is certain: future global uncertainty. The post Sanjoy Sen: The truth about the North Sea – Britain needs to extract what’s left and pursue long-term alternatives appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home27 Mar 2026

Igor Merheim-Eyre: Why Brexiteers are now becoming like Euro-federalists

Calling for a ‘proper Brexit’ after all those that have been tried and failed over the past decade, is reminiscent of those Marxists arguing that their ideology was never properly tried in practice and next time will be different. The post Igor Merheim-Eyre: Why Brexiteers are now becoming like Euro-federalists appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home26 Mar 2026

Terri Bloore: Mark Carney’s landmark Davos speech already reads differently today

Strategic competition between major powers is intensifying. In that environment, middle powers cannot simply assume stability will hold. The post Terri Bloore: Mark Carney’s landmark Davos speech already reads differently today appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home26 Mar 2026

Elliott Malik: Environmental regulations are failing to restore nature whilst blocking housebuilding

We need a common sense approach to Biodiversity Net Gain. The post Elliott Malik: Environmental regulations are failing to restore nature whilst blocking housebuilding appeared first on Conservative Home.

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