EU migrant cap ditched ‘to appease Merkel’… “Plans for a cap on the number of European migrants coming to Britain were dropped by David Cameron just 48 hours before they were due to be unveiled after protests by Angela Merkel, Government sources say. The German Chancellor is in London today for talks with the Prime […]
Migration 1) European Commission set to reject Cameron’s jobs requirement “David Cameron is to be warned by the European commission that a central demand in his renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership terms is likely to be rejected as unacceptable on the grounds that it risks infringing the founding principle of the EU on the free […]
Election campaign 1) Osborne to publish analysis of Labour’s ‘black hole’ spending plans ‘The Chancellor will today publish a ‘dossier’ on Labour’s spending commitments for 2015/6. Sources say it will show Labour will run up a black hole of ‘many billions of pounds’ within months of taking office. And David Cameron yesterday said the recovery […]
We’ll do more to reform welfare and education, pledges Cameron… “The British economy will be a trickier fix, he acknowledges, and DIY Dave’s mantra is that only he has the tools to save us. … The Prime Minister knows that he has just 18 weeks until the General Election to drill home that message – […]
Europe 1) Hammond’s grand tour to build support for European reform… “David Cameron has ordered Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to visit every European country before the election to build support for major reform of Brussels. The Prime Minister, who is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel next week, wants Mr Hammond to hold talks with […]
New Tory election ad unveiled – but is it too safe? ‘If this poster is anything to go by, it’s going to be a long road to the next election. David Cameron’s opening advertising salvo of the campaign immediately ran into fire for being bland, ambiguous and, worse, for looking a little bit French. On […]
Cameron’s New Year Message: Stick to the plan “The UK faces “chaos” if it changes economic course in next May’s general election, David Cameron has warned. Supporting Labour would take the country backwards and jeopardise the recovery, the Conservative leader said in his new year message. Mr Cameron said the UK’s new year resolution should […]
New Year Honours 1) Politicians from all parties share honours with business and the arts… “Elsewhere in the New Year honours list, a knighthood went to David Amess, a backbench Conservative MP since 1983, and a damehood was given to Anne McGuire, a Labour former minister who has represented Stirling since 1997. Stuart Polak, a […]
Ebola arrives in Britain: Cameron speaks to Sturgeon, Hunt chairs Cobra “Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee, while Downing Street said David Cameron had spoken to Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon and made clear the Government would help in any way possible. ‘The Prime Minister and the first […]
Cameron urged to speak up for a Guantanamo inmate in talks with Obama “David Cameron was last night urged to raise the case of Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer with Barack Obama in face-to-face talks early next year. … Any solution could be part of an expected push by the US president to shut the base, […]
Carswell fires broadside against racism in UKIP ‘There has never been anything splendid about isolation. It was our interdependence that put the Great into Great Britain – and it is what sustains our living standards today. In such a world, a dislike of foreigners is not merely offensive, but absurd…Far from being a party that […]
Education 1) Cameron aides attack Morgan for “burying” Gove reforms “Close allies of David Cameron say Mrs Morgan, the surprise choice to replace Michael Gove, should take a more aggressive stance and trumpet her predecessor’s radical school reforms more clearly. One Government source said: ‘I don’t think there’s any question that she’s stumbling. She will […]
Is an NHS “winter crisis” coming at last? Cameron sends in Heywood and Letwin to stave one off… “Sir Jeremy Heywood, the UK’s most senior civil servant, and Oliver Letwin, minister for government policy, have been spending large amounts of time liaising with health department and NHS leaders to ensure that hospitals and doctors can […]
Willetts: May’s mean-spirited plan will damage Britain “More than four million students every year leave their home country to study: of those almost half a million come to the UK…We should aim to increase our share of this growing market. But if we implement the latest idea from the Home Office for new restrictions on […]
May 1) Further coverage of ConHome’s story about the Home Secretary’s SpAds – will all the bad blood harm her leadership chances? “Theresa May has been given an extraordinary warning that a toxic feud between the Home Office and Downing Street is damaging her chances of succeeding David Cameron as Tory leader. … A senior party […]