I would imagine very few ConservativeHome readers would have picked up the waste of trees that is the Daily Mirror this morning, but you may have seen the story we linked to from the frontpage about Nicolas Sarkozy apparently snubbing David Cameron. It won’t surprise you that the Mirror got it wrong. It was based […]
With David Davis sat next to him, a very bronzed David Cameron (lots of canvassing) asked the Prime Minister if he had ruled out an independent inquiry into 7/7. Mr Blair said that he had. Another inquiry would not, he suggested, reach a different conclusion from the Intelligence and Security Committee but would divert the […]
Just gone live, David Cameron talking to YouTube’s News & Politics Editor: The five minute interview was taken in sunny Wales (with the sound of lambs and wind in the background!), it covers: Using the internet to get out of political bubbles like Westminster and Washington DC The extent to which young people are interested […]
Reporting in the Telegraph today, Graeme Wilson cites the recent by-elections analysis of the Party’s chances overall: "Figures published in the run-up to tomorrow’s local elections have not raised hopes of a breakthrough. Analysis of recent council by-elections by Plymouth University puts Labour on 24 per cent – its worst showing in recent memory – […]
Punters at William Hill reckon that the most likely person to be Prime Minister in ten years’ time will be our very own David Cameron (DC has been captioned as a Labour MP by the BBC today btw). The prospect of not having another leadership election for a decade won’t be good for ConservativeHome’s traffic! […]
A poll in the Independent today, exactly 10 years since the 1997 election, says that almost two-thirds of Scots, 63%, think Tony Blair has been a good PM. Speaking to party loyalists in Edinburgh this afternoon, Blair gave the strongest indication yet of his imminent departure and endorsement of Mr Brown: "Within the next few […]
Net satisfaction with David Cameron rose in April amongst Conservative members. A net rating of 49% reflected 74% satisfied and 25% dissatisfied. That’s the best rating for six months. One of the most frequent debates on this site is whether those who comment are representative of broader party opinion. I’ve often defended the monthly survey […]
This was a very difficult category to shortlist (it got by far the most comments when we first mentioned it). There are many notable exceptions but we’ve chosen the following three very different blogs: Matthew Sinclair – Sinclair’s Musings is updated about twice a day, often with lengthy, academic posts. It is wide-ranging in scope, […]
David Davis has written a very good article for this morning’s Times on the "blunders" that may have contributed to 7/7. We now know, for example, that MI5 had information about Mohammad Sidique Khan, the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks, but did not follow up on that information. The ringleader was certainly not a ‘clean […]
James McConalogue is Editor of The European Journal. He manages the European Foundation, chaired by Bill Cash MP. The Foundation proposes the renegotiation of all existing and forthcoming EU treaties. Holding to its original raison d’être – of “yes to European trade, no to European government” – the European Foundation does not advocate withdrawal from […]
These are the first results of ConservativeHome’s April survey of nearly 2,000 readers. Ten years after Tony Blair became Britain’s Prime Minister you have little affection or respect for him. The only consolation for Mr Blair is that 44.5% agree that he was our party’s most devastating political opponent. Nearly a third agree that he […]
Next week we’ll be opening the online vote for the 2007 Conservative Blog Awards. Over the next few days we’ll be running through the three finalists in each category. Here is the parliamentary shortlist: Nadine Dorries MP – This daily dose of raw honesty and emotion has attracted a massive daily following inside and outside […]
ConservativeHome struggled to understand Tony Blair’s Telegraph article of Saturday in which he confessed that his approach to incivility had been wrong but then offered confusing ways forward. Responding on the same editorial pages today David Cameron writes that it is obvious that the Prime Minister still doesn’t ‘get it’: He still believes that public […]
For the parties this Thursday is about control of town halls. For local residents it’s about good services at a fair cost. For most councillors it’s about the opportunity to serve their local communities but for many it’s also about increasingly generous allowances. Figures released today by the TaxPayers’ Alliance and IsItFair show that the […]
Peter Franklin is a Conservative policy advisor and speechwriter specialising in environmental and social issues. Ten years ago the Conservative Party suffered its worst ever defeat under universal suffrage. It wasn’t just the seats lost or the abysmal vote share, but also the national sense of joy at our humiliation. Were you up for Portillo? […]