Blukip! Purple Momentum! But…the big problem with Tory entryism claims is that there’s no evidence that they’re true
When asked for it, the three MPs presented none. The reason is simple: this supposedly sinister entryist army does not exist.
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Mark Wallace has been ConservativeHome's Executive Editor since May 2013. He has previously worked as Campaign Director for the TaxPayers' Alliance, Head of Media Relations for the Institute of Directors and as a communications consultant to various major UK companies.
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So you’ve decided to set up a new party. Eight tips from UKIP’s experience.
The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
May responds: “I am saddened… But by delivering on our manifesto commitment we are doing the right thing for our country.”
“I am determined that under my leadership the Conservative Party will always offer the decent, moderate and patriotic politics that the people of this country deserve.”
The Group of Three’s full resignation letter: “We no longer feel we can remain in the Party…so firmly in the grip of the ERG and DUP.”
“There is a failure of politics in general, not just in the Conservative Party but in both main parties as they move to the fringes.”
If we were staying in the EU, would Honda still be leaving?
The answer seems likely to be yes. But there are still implications for the politics and economics of Brexit.
‘The Independent Group’ is stage one of a plan for a new party – but will it work?
Ten initial thoughts on today’s announcement by Umunna and his colleagues.
Cleverly calls on unions to take down hugely influential ‘school cuts’ site that uses ‘misleading’ statistics
Campaigners say the site influenced 871,000 voters and prevented a Conservative majority. The Statistics Authority says its calculations are wrong.
A dozen more seats open for candidate applications
Dagenham and Rainham, Bury South, Cardiff North and Bassetlaw are among the new tranche seeking a Conservative candidate.
Boles fights back against rulebook warfare with a loophole of his own
His association executive is expected to demand tonight that he makes his intentions clear. But the constitution allows him to simply refuse to answer.
Italy’s spat with France shows the EU is at threat not of disintegration but of hijack
Will fans of the EU establishment be quite so keen on unaccountable, centralised institutions when their opponents start appointing commissioners?
Corbyn’s Brexit tightrope gets ever thinner, and the wind is getting up
He evidently believes that the Government will teeter before he does, and that his backbench Europhiles lack the gumption to move against him.
Thornberry can’t “guarantee” her foreign policy won’t indulge human rights abusers when Corbyn does exactly that
The Shadow Foreign Secretary is making pledges her leader seems unlikely to honour.
Five crucial implications of Labour’s membership decline
Losing 150,000 members, and the money that comes with them, has knock-on effects for the Opposition and for the Conservative Party.
Grantham and Stamford Association Chairman expects proceedings against Boles to begin next week
The latest email to local members confirms ConservativeHome’s recent report.
Our survey. More than eight in ten Conservative members oppose extending Article 50.
The level of opposition is a shade higher than it was a fortnight ago.