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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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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.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Mark Wallace | 22 February 2019 at 6:40 am | 201 comments

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.

ToryDiary | By Mark Wallace | 20 February 2019 at 3:38 pm | 156 comments

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.”

MPs ETC | By Mark Wallace | 20 February 2019 at 11:38 am | 23 comments

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.”

MPs ETC | By Mark Wallace | 20 February 2019 at 11:31 am | 124 comments

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.

ToryDiary | By Mark Wallace | 19 February 2019 at 6:20 pm | 150 comments

‘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.

Left Watch | By Mark Wallace | 18 February 2019 at 12:52 pm | 185 comments

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.

Left Watch | By Mark Wallace | 15 February 2019 at 1:32 pm | 42 comments

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.

MPs ETC | By Mark Wallace | 13 February 2019 at 2:42 pm | 24 comments

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.

MPs ETC | By Mark Wallace | 11 February 2019 at 4:31 pm | 103 comments

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?

International | By Mark Wallace | 8 February 2019 at 4:00 pm | 80 comments

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.

Left Watch | By Mark Wallace | 7 February 2019 at 2:00 pm | 47 comments

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.

Left Watch | By Mark Wallace | 6 February 2019 at 11:48 am | 22 comments

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.

Left Watch | By Mark Wallace | 5 February 2019 at 3:25 pm | 49 comments

Grantham and Stamford Association Chairman expects proceedings against Boles to begin next week

The latest email to local members confirms ConservativeHome’s recent report.

MPs ETC | By Mark Wallace | 4 February 2019 at 4:30 pm | 117 comments

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.

ToryDiary | By Mark Wallace | 4 February 2019 at 3:00 pm | 67 comments

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