This obscure but vital body enables Tory MPs to wield decisive power.
The Blackpool conference saw various candidates make their case, and an unlikely new leader emerge.
His biggest strength now is that to a mass of people who don’t follow politics he is a Given, A Fact – like Thatcher, Blair or the weather.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
Few people understand better than the Culture Secretary how the government machine works, or fails to work.
He is tipped by some as a future Prime Minister, but is more plausibly seen as a future Chancellor.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
She is one of the few Cabinet members who does not give the impression of having had her personality flattened by the sacrifices demanded by a ministerial career.
Hers or Letwins? That’s what the choice is narrowing down to. From the point of view of trust in politics, how MPs vote will now make little difference – if any.
We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.
Drawing on decades of experience and friendships from all parties, Sir David – inventor of the swingometer – founded the UK’s psephological profession.
Ministers like Amber Rudd have great difficulty finding able SpAds because the Conservative Research Department, which used to train them, has been destroyed.
The twenty-second article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.