James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground

James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground

James Somerville-Meikle is a committee member of Catholics in the Conservative Party. As the dust settled on post war Britain, Winston Churchill asked Sir Hugh Fraser, then MP for Stafford, to help get more Catholics involved in the Conservative Party. Sir Hugh was one of a tiny number of Catholic Conservative MPs in the post-war…

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Minnesota rethinks how it supports entrepreneurs and businesses

As cities and states face pandemic-induced budget shortfalls, they’re struggling to create playbooks to help businesses get back on their feet and put millions of unemployed Americans back to work. The Brookings Institution projects that state and local government revenues will decline $167 billion in 2021, and $145 billion a year after that. That doesn’t…