Protecting Foreign Aid Budgets

Today, former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has launched her campaign to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, and the next prime minister. Whilst launching the new ‘Blue Collar Conservatism’ group, she made her first policy pledge – to cut the UK’s foreign aid budget by £7bn. In her announcement, she argued

Justice for Grenfell

It was just before 1am on June 14th 2017 when the emergency services were informed of a fire in a North London tower block. What came next shocked the world. Grenfell Tower was a high-rise block of social housing in the North of the London Borough of Kensington. It was home to around 600 people,

Changing Direction.

I am ashamed at the state of this country. We were supposed to be heading into a more prosperous future, sunlit uplands and all that. This is not what I see. It’s worth noting that I am a privileged person in a wealthy area – I imagine this situation is much worse than I believe.