Is Boris the Kevin Pietersen of politics?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Picture from KP's Twitter account. This from James Crabtree in the FT (£): "At… Read more »
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George Osborne appoints Neil O’Brien as new adviser and opens door to a more blue collar, northern conservatism
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Another sign this morning that Team Cameron is succeeding in recruiting the calibre of… Read more »
Ding dong! The report is dead. Report is dead. Report is dead. Ding dong! The wicked report is dead…
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter …That, at any rate, is pretty much the unanimous verdict of Fleet Street this… Read more »
Rolling blog on the release of the Leveson Report
6pm Before we close this rolling blog, it’s worth highlighting the passage from the Leveson Report saying there is “no evidence”… Read more »
Net migration falls by a quarter in a year
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Here’s a turn-up: net migration in the year to March fell from 242,000 to 183,000,… Read more »
It has never been harder to be a Whip
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Peter Oborne begins his Daily Telegraph column today with the story of how Alastair… Read more »
There are moral, economic and political reasons to cap payday loan charges — so it’s good news that the Government plans to do so
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Even though it came about from fear of a Lords defeat, the Government’s promise to… Read more »
Not the big state. Not the small state. But the affordable state.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter This is the fifth in ConservativeHome's series of posts counting down to the Autumn… Read more »
The politics of Leveson are likely to rumble on and on
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Here is something that’s become clearer today: the Leveson Report will mean a tricky game… Read more »
David Cameron uses PMQs to attack “something for nothing” Miliband
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Unsurprisingly, two subjects simmered to the fore in PMQs today: the Work Programme and tomorrow’s… Read more »
Nick Boles’s proposal for solving Britain’s housing shortage? Build beautiful
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Judging only from the headlines in today’s papers, you might get the impression that Nick… Read more »
George Osborne should ditch his fiscal rules
This is the second in ConservativeHome’s series of posts counting down to the Autumn Statement. Yesterday, Tim Montgomerie said that… Read more »
Boris points in all directions at once
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Boris has been in India but he's also been displaying some topsy turvy positioning…. Read more »
It’s too early to judge the Work Programme, but it isn’t too early to worry
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Has the Government’s Work Programme failed? Well, today’s numbers from the DWP certainly don’t look… Read more »
“Goldfinger” Cameron V “007” Gove
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action" – Ian… Read more »