By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Rounding off our Picks of the Year – as voted for by readers the last two winners are… The u-turn of the year was the pasty tax – voted for by 46.7% of ConHome respondents. The coming U-turn on Heathrow's third runway was second with 33.5% of votes. Gaffe […]
Kapow! It’s time for the Scrap of the Year award, as voted for by ConHome readers in our end-of-year survey. In the end, it wasn’t so much a points decision as a total knockout. One scrap bludgeoned its way to the top of the pile, as the voting totals show: The scrap between the parliamentary party and the Tory leadership, […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter For the second year the Education Secretary Michael Gove wins the highest honour in ConHome's end-of-year awards as voted for by Tory members; 36.1% voted for the Education Secretary – "for his continuing education reforms"; 29.1% voted for IDS – "for his continuing welfare reforms"; 8.9% for Theresa May […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The event of the year – according to more than 2,500 ConHome readers – was the rise of UKIP. Readers had a choice of four events in our Picks of 2012 survey and these were the results: The rise of UKIP: 51.5%; The "omnishambles" Budget: 21.8%; The ending of […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Time for the the fifth result from our end-of year readers’ survey: those for Policy of the Year. The overall winner, by some distance, was the benefits cap, which secured 57.6 per cent of the vote. The list of runners-up reads as follows: The higher and higher basic income tax […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the fourth set of results from our end-of-year readers' survey Owen Paterson has been voted as the One To Watch in 2013. The man who succeeded Caroline Spelman as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was an overwhelming winner – garnering 53.3% of the more […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Over the last couple of days we published the first two of ten picks of 2012 – as chosen by ConHome readers; Jesse Norman won the backbencher of the year award and, less happily, Nick Clegg won Yellow B**tard of the Year. In the contest for Conservative achievement of […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Yesterday we published the first of ten picks of 2012 – as chosen by ConHome readers. Jesse Norman won the backbencher of the year award. Our second award goes to the Yellow B**tard of the year. The name for this award is taken from a meeting of the 1922 […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Over the next few days we will be announcing how 2,568 of Tory members have voted in ten end-of-year awards. We begin with the result of the Parliamentarian of the Year award. In a very tight contest Jesse Norman won 34.6% of votes – narrowly beating Robert Halfon (32.1%) […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. What should be the nominees for the Conservative achievement of the year? Boris Johnson's re-election? The big drop in net immigration? The rejection of statutory regulation of the press? Cameron getting a […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. What should be the nominees for U-turn of the year? The caravan tax? The pasty tax? The charity tax? Or perhaps something outside of the Treasury's remit!? Please nominate your suggestions below […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. What should be the nominees for Scrap of the year? Was it between John Hayes and Ed Davey over windfarms? Between half of the Tory Party and the leadership on gay marriage, […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. Who should be the nominees for the person who used 2012 to become the one to watch? Boris for being re-elected and becoming a candidate for next Tory leader? Rising Treasury star […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. What should be the nominees for Gaffe of the year? The March Budget? The decision to press ahead with gay marriage? The mishandling of 'Pleb-gate'? Aidan Burley's "multicultural crap" Tweet? Nadine Dorries […]
Later this week we will conduct our end-of-year ConHome readers' poll and we will ask readers to vote for ten picks of 2012. What should be the nominees for policy of the year? The cut in the top rate of tax? The replacement of GCSEs? The new policy on aid to India? Please nominate your […]