Last night, CCHQ released the next batch of seats to which those on the List can apply. The deadline for paper applications is 12th June.
After a bruising set of local election results – the Tories lost control of both South Hams and Plymouth City Councils – ConservativeHome was told there was a sense a “local candidate with local knowledge” was required.
The Prime Minister has chosen not to open an investigation into the Home Secretary over claims she breached the Ministerial Code.
He had been up against Aarti Joshi, a senior tax lawyer in a technology firm and a 2022 council candidate in Camden, and Mehreen Malik, a lawyer with Mayer Brown and a candidate for Kensington and Chelsea Council in 2022,
When ConservativeHome previously spoke to local sources about the vote against Bacon, we were told the major concern was a “lack of visible engagement” in the constituency.
Asides from Jonathan Djanogly every other MP who has yet been de-selected by their executive and for whom the wider membership vote has occurred has been re-adopted. Why might this be?
So some will say that his attack on Labour’s confusions and contradictions is pots and kettles. All the same, its contents are well worth assimilating.
“We must not fall into this trap: the trap of pushing policies which seem to be politically possible but which we know won’t actually solve the country’s problems.”
In his speech to the National Conservative Conference yesterday, the MP for Devizes urged Conservatives to “Try the Nation”.
He was the candidate for Rother Valley in 2015, when he placed third.
Marson won by 117 votes to 71. Djanogly lost by 106 votes to 127.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary has resigned following the publication of the bullying inquiry report conducted by Adam Tolley KC.
The MP told ConservativeHome that he looks forward to “engaging with party members about how” he can “keep Clacton blue”, having held the seat since 2017
As Greg Hands profiled for us this morning, CCHQ has contacted associations and candidates to inform them the first tranche of constituencies is being advertised from today.
The MP for Blackpool South – for now – is the 15th MP sitting as an independent. That’s more than the Liberal Democrats.