Hints and tips:
...Tory unity is prized over parliamentary consensus....
...It is a truism of political scholarship that the Tory party has an infinite capacity for reinvention....
...Watching the story of Kevin Pearce and his accident has left me, the world’s least likely person to get on a snowboard, pondering what makes us who we are....
...That’s a winning strategy in a country where most voters are now over 55, estimate Joe Chrisp and Nick Pearce of Bath University. Ballot-box Britain is much older than the rest of Britain....
...Planned increases in National Insurance to pay for better health and social care are now rejected by both the Labour front bench and Tory backbenchers....
...Downing Street has been anxious to regain the political initiative after weeks of “drift”, according to one Tory official....
...Shop manager David Pearce, whose family were coal miners and traditional Labour voters, added: “People are just glad it’s over.”...
...Letter in response to this article: DUP quite right to object to an artificial border / From Robert Pearce, Prestwich, Manchester, UK...
Rebuilding the party at a time of national division is a monumental task
...Nick Pearce, professor of public policy at the University of Bath and a former Labour Home Office special adviser, suggests the apparent absence of signature policies could be due to the constraints of Brexit...
...(The LSE on Wednesday named British academic Dame Shirley Pearce as its new chair.)...
...“We perform in two weeks’ time,” says Liz Pearce, the show’s director....
...But some MPs worry that the spending review due in November will damage the Tories once more in the eyes of many voters....
...“We know that young people can feel shut out by the way our political system works,” Ms Pearce told the Financial Times....
...If nothing else, Mr Gove curbed the Tories’ curious obsession with grammar schools; his was a new national mission allied with the global education reform movement....
...David Ruffley, a Tory member of the Treasury committee, said Labour were taking a “cheap shot” at the governor....
...The idea of Left Unity as socialist Faragism also misses how the party “has no grounding in popular sentiment”, argues Nick Pearce, director of IPPR, a centre-left think-tank....
...Its heartland is Brattle Street, known as Tory Row since it was originally home to a clique of wealthy landowning loyalists who rejected the Declaration of Independence....
...Hannah Pearce, a protester, criticised the “desperate” move by Starbucks, saying that offering to pay tax “if and when it suits” did not stop a company being a tax avoider....
...Nick Pearce, who headed Gordon Brown’s policy unit when Heywood was chief of staff and now runs the Institute for Public Policy Research, says: “He will always be powerful in any Number 10....
...The chancellor is already locked in a war of words with the Liberal Democrats and some Tory ministers over his plans to cut a further £10bn from the welfare bill....
...When Lords reform was dealt a blow in July – with a large rebellion by Tory backbenchers – it was Letwin who was sent by Cameron to try to find a compromise, along with Ed Llewellyn, the PM’s chief of staff...
...Inspired by the book Nudge by American thinkers Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein – whose wheezes included painting pictures of flies on urinals to encourage improved aim – nudging was heralded as a Tory...
...In the first series, a corrupt politician, let out of prison having found Christ inside, has obvious parallels to the former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken....
...Then there is Nick Pearce, who is head of strategic policy at the PM’s policy unit, which is based in the Treasury and is answerable to both Mr Brown and to Alistair Darling, the chancellor....
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