Adam Smith Institute: Voters Back Building Homes & Levelling Up

A new poll from C|T Local, Sir Lynton Crosby’s real estate advisory business, and the Adam Smith Institute, finds that Conservatives could achieve majority-securing electoral boost by building more homes. 1.6 million vote boost for Conservatives building more homes in a way that levels up, securing the 2019 majority at…

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Mercury Article: Help to preserve our local landmarks by nominating them as a heritage site

One of the most fun jobs in Government is being Heritage Minister, because you get to ‘list’ historic buildings so they can’t be destroyed or knocked down. The list includes more than 500,000 listed buildings, gardens, battlefields, protected shipwrecks and monuments, covering everything from Stonehenge and Wells Cathedral to the Iron…

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CAPX: There is a way to boost development while satisfying even the most hardcore NIMBYs

Article by Sam Bowman and originally posted on Capx. Last week gave us a picture of things to come in Britain. First, the Government raised National Insurance contributions by 2.5%. This was ostensibly to pay for “social care”, but the money will mostly go to the NHS, with social care’s problems…

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