Despite it all, it’s hard not to feel a little sorry for Sir Ed Davey. It was all going so well. After years in the doldrums, the Liberal Democrats had won a hearing in middle England and seem ...
https://capx.co/theres-more-to-the-horizon-scandal-than-ed-daveys-incompetence/
Rishi Sunak has made headlines recently by suggesting that he is looking to row back on his government’s green pledges. However, making headlines appears to be all that this is. This new ‘pol...
https://capx.co/rishi-faces-an-electoral-car-crash-if-he-doesnt-end-the-war-on-motorists/
You probably haven’t heard of the Social Value Act of 2012, but this little known piece of legislation has had a remarkable impact on the way the British state does business. As with many regul...
https://capx.co/how-social-value-has-become-a-millstone-for-britains-small-businesses/
Almost one year on from Liz Truss’ ill-fated mini-budget, there are murmurings of a possible tax offering to voters ahead of a likely 2024 election. Ministers have described tax cuts as being...
https://capx.co/britain-cannot-afford-an-ever-expanding-state-bureaucracy/
Who isn’t a fan of the film Wall Street? The Oscar-winning cautionary tale of the pitfalls of unchecked ambition, power and greed against a backdrop of cronyism, corruption and treating the pub...
https://capx.co/how-casino-councils-became-the-new-wall-street/
You might not have heard of Government Procurement Cards (GPCs) but they’re all the rage today. Labour’s newly published ‘GPC Files’ – which sounds very much like a weird Twitter conspi...
https://capx.co/theres-no-scandal-in-labours-gpc-files-just-a-crude-political-hatchet-job/
Gordon Brown is a man on a mission, and that mission is to file a second draft of his obituary. Out will be the under-appreciated hero of the financial crisis who sulked his way through Tony Bl...
https://capx.co/if-its-brown-flush-it-down-the-former-pm-is-doubling-down-on-constitutional-failure/
I’m not sure there has ever been an overwhelming spirit of national deference to our Members of Parliament. One has only to consider James Gillray’s cartoons from the 18th century to see that...
https://capx.co/why-we-should-abolish-mps-expenses-and-pay-them-more-instead/
Keir Starmer has big constitutional plans if he becomes the next Prime Minister. The Labour leader has said he wants to abolish the Lords as it currently exists, replacing it with an elected uppe...
https://capx.co/starmers-lords-reforms-would-be-dead-on-arrival-for-one-simple-reason/
Since it was established over a century ago, the role of the Cabinet Office has historically been to manage the civil service and coordinate policy. Over the years, however, it has ballooned beyo...
https://capx.co/count-down-how-to-get-a-slimmer-more-efficient-cabinet-office/