Policy Review Reports Begin

Today has seen the publication of Iain Duncan-Smith’s detailed analysis and report into how we can start to rebuild our “broken society”.
As ever the media has focused almost entirely on just one out of almost 200 recommendations. In fact the proposal to recognise marriage in the tax system is something that David Cameron has mentioned on many occasions. What has been made clear that these reports do not automatically become Party policy. They are recommendations and they will be used to start off a debate and following that specific policies which will be costed will be put into place before the next election.
I attended a meeting of the Conservative Group at Bury Town Hall last night where the proposed congestion charge sparked much debate. We were particularly encouraged by the fact that the ” real-life characters ” featured on the propaganda leaflet have all been revealed as fakes!