By funding our national debt with a big pool of investments, our children and grandchildren won’t have to break their piggy-banks to pay our IOUs. Nick Timothy is right; the age of austerity is nearly over. After eight long years, we’re aren’t having to borrow to pay for day-to-day spending…
Read MoreMonday was a great day. The Government at last published the long awaited energy price cap bill that I and 212 other MPs from all parties campaigned for – and that millions of customers need. But how can we square our Conservative values with something as interventionist as an energy…
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A fair number of local residents have got in touch about homeless people in and around Weston town centre. It isn’t a new problem, of course; most towns and cities have a shifting group of ‘rough-sleepers’, plus a larger group of at-risk people whose accommodation isn’t secure and are either…
Read MoreThe UK’s new anticorruption champion, John Penrose, has pledged to stick up for the Serious Fraud Office following the government reprieve it was handed late last year. In an interview with MLex, he also defended the agency’s ad hoc funding model and discussed the influence of hit TV crime drama…
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