Three reasons for the Conservatives to be careful with their Co-op campaigning

A lot of people’s fingerprints can be found on the institution’s troubles, and personal attacks can carry political risks with them.

In defence of Dominic Grieve

We must be free to criticise each other’s faults if we are to live in a country rather than a balkanised airstrip.

Shares in David Cameron are under-valued

It is possible, arguably even likely, that he will still be Prime Minister after 2015.

The courage of Nick Boles

He’s not right in every particular – far from it – but the Planning Minister’s speech was a big, brave confrontation of the Conservative Party’s electoral problems.

Romania and Bulgaria: Why Cameron should come out for Britain leaving the EU

Britain’s powerlessness to restrict the movement of Romanians and Bulgarians from January 1 shows up the consequences of membership.

The case for free school co-operatives is set out by Steve Baker

The Telegraph’s report of his view is a sign of rising media interest in the Chairmen of the ’22’s Policy Committees. Expect to see more it.

Any tax cuts should help poorer workers first

In the seats that the party must win and hold in 2013, a smaller proportion of voters will pay the 40p rate than in the safer shire and sururban seats of the south.

Did Labour’s 2004 GP contract drive the rise in A & E attendances?

It may be that there are other explanations, as a whole or in part, but the enclosed graph is worth a look.

Jeremy Hunt – the man with a plan

The Health Secretary’s target-scrapping deal with the doctors aims to improve care and relax A & E pressures – through a new regime of autonomy, inspection and transparency.

Over 50 MPs have served in the armed forces. Here are more than 30 of them together.

They gathered, wearing their regimental or service ties, ahead of the Remembrance Sunday commemorations.

The key role of the ’22’s five policy committee chairmen

Robert Buckland has replaced Eleanor Laing as Chairman of the the Home Affairs Committee. There could be fresh elections for all Chairman posts.

Doctors’ contracts and an “NHS crisis”

Jeremy Hunt is trying to untangle the mess Labour made of doctors’ contracts, but time is not on his side.

The Conservatives’ real class problem

It isn’t social class, but political class. And by the way, the grip of Eton and the public schools on the Tories is getting weaker, not stronger.

The surreptitious growth of the payroll vote

Roughly half of all Conservative MPs are now part of it.

Why Adam Afriyie should withdraw his amendment to the Wharton bill today

There’s no majority in the Commons for a pre-2017 referendum. All the Afriyie amendment can help achieve is to delay and thus endanger the bill.