Maria Miller Articles

Political management has had a bad name. 'Control-freakery', 'Spin', 'Stalinism'. I know, I know – I don't get, they're not insults to me either, but they have been to the political classes at large. It was one of David Cameron's oddest ambitions to be both the 'heir...

This week a cross-party commission to look at civil service reform was launched. Former ministers John Healey and Nick Herbert have established GovernUp – ridiculous name, I know, sorry but it seems to come with the territory – as ‘an independent, non-party project to...

George Osborne was despicable and wrong to link the case of the killing of the Philpott children to the benefits system. Many others have rightly condemned him for this. He was wrong in what he said – and he was wrong in what he failed to say. If he wanted to comment...

It is David Cameron’s sad fate to be to One Direction what Harold Wilson was to the Undertones, and of all of his sad covers of Wilson-era hits, the Leveson inquiry was the worst of all. Wilson wasn’t amiss to the odd inquiry or commission to kick a problem upstream,...