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John Oxley: Generous mortgages are a symptom of the housing crisis, not a solution to it

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | John Oxley

John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His SubStack is Joxley Writes. There are now more mortgages available with required deposits of five per cent or 1tenper cent than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008, according to industry reports. That in itself feels like an alarming statistic – a return perhaps to the trends which saw our banks overleveraged and thrown into the crisis when the market changed.
John Mac Ghlionn: Britain’s pensions are about to be fed into the Bitcoin casino

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | John Mac Ghlionn

John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. His writing appears in CapX, The Hill and The New York Post. BlackRock’s latest move into Bitcoin should set off every alarm bell across Britain. The world’s largest asset manager just secured approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as a crypto asset firm. Now, it’s preparing to unleash a new Bitcoin ETP across Europe – with Britain front and centre. On the surface, it looks neat, professional, and safe.
Why it is time to bring back the modern Domesday Book

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

Where is the country’s long-term strategy for the management of national assets? You wouldn’t be alone in wondering whether there is one at all.
John Redwood: In the absence of a clear plan to improve an industry, nationalisation is doomed to fail

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | John Redwood

Sir John Redwood is a former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales. Saturday 12 April saw a constitutional revolution. The Labour Government rammed through in a single day a Bill that overturns company and international law, giving unprecedented powers to a Secretary of State to intervene in the work and management of a private sector foreign company operating in the UK. As the company is Chinese, it may well have support from the Chinese state.
The real question on political betting: should a quango be able to invent a criminal offence?

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

This morning the media reports that 15 people – including, to much initial confusion, “a former police officer called Jeremy Hunt – who is not the former chancellor” – have been charged with gambling offences for allegedly placing inside bets on the timing of last year’s general election. Poor Craig Williams has his face back in the newspapers.
Labour's comms team is inadvertently teaching Conservative counterparts a valuable lesson - don't do it like this

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Giles Dilnot

I don’t hate the Labour Party. I disagree with them. I don’t always agree with my own party – but that’s politics. I do however advocate talking to opponents, even being friends. This is not virtue signalling, it’s good strategy. I want to understand why they dislike Conservatism, why they believe their plan (so far as I can discern one) is better than ours (so far as I can, at the moment, get hold of one). I want to understand my opponents and learn from their mistakes.
Starmer's push to get children 'ready for school' and the state-dependency doom loop

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

You can always tell things are going well when a government starts throwing advisers overboard, as Sir Keir Starmer has been doing in recent months. Just one more top team will fix everything bro, etc. But it’s particularly baffling to read that the Prime Minister has hired Oli de Botton, “a former teacher who founded an East London free school”, because Downing Street “has been frustrated by criticism of its policy on schools“.
Darren Millar: Standing up for Wales, our Union and our official languages means taking on the language zealots

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Darren Millar

Darren Millar MS is Leader of the Welsh ConservativesI was deeply concerned to learn last week that Gwynedd County Council is proposing to, in its own words, “remove bilingualism and bilingual teaching” from all of the county’s schools. In effect, should the plans be implemented, English-medium education will be being phased out entirely in Gwynedd’s schools irrespective of the views of parents and pupils in the local authority area or the best interests of their children.
Sorry but MPs are labouring under an entitled assumption they have access all areas, and they don't

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Giles Dilnot

“What the hell has been going on here since we’ve been away?”These are the words I uttered having arrived back in the UK in October 2022 from a series of foreign trips including the United Nations General Assembly – the diplomatic equivalent of two days of speed dating – and Japan. It was three weeks into the Liz Truss Premiership that had opened with the death of Her Majesty the Queen. To a newbie to Government it was the grandest baptism of fire I could imagine.
Daniel Hannan: Six tests that will reveal whether Starmer is serious about equipping Britain for Trump's new world

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Daniel Hannan

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020 and is now President of the Institute for Free Trade. If, as Sir Keir Starmer says, the world has changed utterly, his policies must change with it. That might sound obvious, but it is human nature to react to sudden and dramatic events by saying: “This just proves whatever I previously thought”.