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My main advice to the Prime Minister is to revisit the 2019 Manifesto and complete our delivery of it. We all signed up to it and pledged to do what it offered...

Being in office does not mean a Minister is in power. The present government has some attractive policies and ambitions, but it is finding it tough to get them...

I have long been an advocate of growth. I have always been clear the growth I want is in income per head, not in the number of people. I have advocated the...

This autumn statement is quite easy to characterise: it will increase spending a lot, it will increase taxation revenue a lot and it will increase borrowing. I...

The Autumn Statement put up spending and taxes. It should be amended by cutting out needless and wasteful spending. We do not need a government ad campaign to...

The Treasury keeps changing the figures it shows and withholds. I feel when reading Budget and Financial Statement books now I am being pushed into a view or...

Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP (Wokingham) (Con): I congratulate the Minister on a lively and informative speech. It was great to have a positive vision for the...

Since 2018 public expenditure has surged. This year we see government spending nearly £1.1 trillion, up by more than a quarter compared to the 2028-19 level. We...

Remembrance brings together so many families in a common grief. The two great wars of the last century touched most families with wounds and death. Eventually...