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The Afghan resettlement scheme has become a £6bn system the public barely understands

The Afghan resettlement scheme has become a £6bn system the public barely understands

The National Audit Office's Afghan resettlement report reveals a system far larger, costlier and less controlled than advertised.

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Abolishing inheritance tax is no longer a fringe idea

Abolishing inheritance tax is no longer a fringe idea

Restore Britain’s intervention exposes how weak the economic and moral case for Britain’s most unpopular tax has become.

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Britain must now bid to keep its own history

Britain must now bid to keep its own history

A flag from the Battle of Trafalgar is up for sale. The real story is not the auction, but what it reveals about a country that no longer owns its past.

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Restore surpasses Conservative membership in one month

Restore surpasses Conservative membership in one month

Rupert Lowe says his new party has surpassed Conservative membership just weeks after launching, a sign of how quickly Britain’s political landscape may be shifting.

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The government thinks the word “competitive” is the problem

The government thinks the word “competitive” is the problem

Whitehall’s latest hiring guidance assumes women are deterred by adjectives. It says more about the modern equality bureaucracy than the labour market it claims to fix.

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The international lawfare strategy against Britain

The international lawfare strategy against Britain

A growing alliance of NGOs, governments and legal activists is attempting to use international courts and institutions to force Britain into slavery reparations.

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Britain is not already at war

Britain is not already at war

Allister Heath’s war fever mistakes strategic prudence for weakness.

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Britain’s housing crisis has an immigration arithmetic problem

Britain’s housing crisis has an immigration arithmetic problem

If nearly four in ten new homes are needed for new arrivals, the question is no longer whether we build houses. It is who they are built for.

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Restore Britain’s rise signals a new phase in British politics

Restore Britain’s rise signals a new phase in British politics

Restore Britain’s rapid growth suggests the political debate in Britain may be shifting more fundamentally than Westminster realises.

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Build Baby Build? More like Bluff Baby Bluff

Build Baby Build? More like Bluff Baby Bluff

Labour’s housing pledge is drowning in slogans, excuses and red caps while the numbers tell a very different story.

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The soul of the nation, fought over IDs and immigration

The soul of the nation, fought over IDs and immigration

Blair’s billion-pound machine + Reform’s insurgent surge

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The Starkey Thesis: Why Britain can’t move on until it undoes 1997

The Starkey Thesis: Why Britain can’t move on until it undoes 1997

From Peel to Blair and back again. Inside David Starkey’s battle to define Conservatism.

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