Nick Boles

MP for Grantham and Stamford. New-intake MP and a key moderniser. Former Policy Exchange director and one of the Notting Hill set. Deemed close to the leadership. Tipped for bigger things

● Introduce a Land Value Tax (exempting farmland and people’s main home) and use the proceeds to cut National Insurance – permanently. A Land Value Tax would encourage property owners to let empty buildings and build on development land. A National Insurance cut would encourage employers to create more jobs and increase the take-home pay of those in work.

● Give strong backing to the campaigns for directly elected mayors in cities such as Birmingham and Bristol and announce that every town and city in England and Wales will hold a referendum on the election of an executive mayor by 2015.

● Encourage all parents to attend parenting classes provided by charities and social enterprises and make regular attendance a condition for those with young children on income support.

● Ask new migrants who are given leave to remain in Britain to pay a surety deposit, refundable after five years if they have paid income tax, not claimed benefits and not received a criminal conviction.

● Use the credibility you have won through your successful leadership of international action in Libya to spell out some home truths to both Palestinians and Israelis. Tell the Palestinians that they will only get the state they deserve if they recognise Israel’s right to exist as the world’s only Jewish state. And tell the Israelis that they will only get the security they deserve if they give up on the idea of Greater Israel and stop building settlements in the occupied territories.