ConservativeHome's new regular selection of recent Tory appearances on Radio 4's Today programme.
(1) On Monday August 30th Bob Neill discussed the provision of authorised sites for travellers with a representative of the UK Gypsy Council (5 minutes, 30 seconds)
(2) On Friday September 3rd, Graham Stuart, chairman of the Education Select Committee, featured in a discussion about how to devise a school-admissions system that gives sufficient access to pupils from poorer backgrounds.
(3) On Friday September 3rd, Murdo Fraser MSP, Tory health spokesman at Holyrood, featured in a discussion about whether to adopt a minimum price for alcohol.
ConservativeHome's new regular selection of recent Tory appearances on Radio 4's Today programme.
(1) On Thursday 19th August Universities minister, David Willetts, talked to Evan Davis about this year's A level results and the merits of making it harder for people to achieve high-end grades (4 minutes, 6 seconds).
(2) On Friday 20th August Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson talked to Jim Naughtie about dissident Irish terrorist groups and insisted that the government will not engage with them until they end violence (interview starts at 2 minutes, 55 seconds in the 10 minutes, 38 seconds feature). He also talked more generally about Coalition policy in the province.
(3) On Saturday 21st August Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome talked to Jim Naughtie about Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reform agenda. Tim's contribution is followed by an interview with former Labour Cabinet minister David Blunkett (8 minutes, 44 seconds).
(4) On Monday 23rd August Local Government Minister Bob Neill explains why Eric Pickles decided to close the high-spending Audit Commission (Mr Neill starts speaking at 4 minutes, 46 seconds in to this 12 minutes, 6 seconds package).
(5) On Wednesday 25th August the Financial Secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban defended the fairness of the Budget during an interview with Justin Webb (4 minutes, 29 seconds).
(6) On Friday 27th August Education Secretary Michael Gove said that banding by ability "has a role to play" in schools in England after Barnardo's called for schools to be required to take pupils from a range of academic abilities.
(6) On Saturday 28th August International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell discussed whether the UK's international aid effort strikes the right balance between prevention of crises and the alleviation of their effects. (2 minutes and 10 seconds into the audio)
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