By Timothy Barnes. Across England and Wales last Saturday, small groups of volunteers were working to help candidates in the first election for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), which will take place on Thursday 15 November. I was in Cambridge for a couple of hours, helping Conservative former-MP Sir Graham Bright in his bid to become […]
Tim Montgomerie has written today about the change among grassroots Conservatives, who have started to move more determinedly against an elected House of Lords. He has suggested several reasons why that might be the case, but has missed out the most obvious: They have thought about it and realised it would be a mistake. That […]
By Timothy Barnes As Red Nose Day gets into full swing, it is easy for those of us with political views on life to see it as part of the Big Society: fundraising for volunteer-based activities working on worthy projects. In the Financial Times, yesterday, the local volunteers manning Ellington Library in Northumberland were being […]
Timothy Barnes reports from his recent trip to Rwanda. Timothy is Executive Director of UCL Advances, the centre for entrepreneurship at University College London, and is also the National Chairman of the Tory Reform Group (blog here). He is writing in a personal capacity. Fiona Hodgson’s report will be our final report and will be […]
Tim Montgomerie has written today about the change among grassroots Conservatives, who have started to move more determinedly against an elected House of Lords. He has suggested several reasons why that might be the case, but has missed out the most obvious: They have thought about it and realised it would be a mistake. That […]