Lansley and Cameron differ on smoking ban
John Reid and David Cameron will vote against a total ban on smoking in all pubs. Patricia Hewitt and Andrew… Read more »
Hain humiliated over abandonment of Northern Ireland Bill
The flat-footed Peter Hain used Boxing Day to make an attack on Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary David Lidington’s opposition to… Read more »
Campbell mocked at PMQs
Party leaders’ topics: Cameron on Iran researching uranium enrichment and meeting targets for tackling AIDS. Campbell on the "mess of… Read more »
Matthew d’Ancona: The LibDems need Clegg
Mark Oaten MP may have declared his bid for the LibDem leadership but today’s newspapers are doubtful that he has… Read more »
Labour 3% ahead in Times poll
A Populus poll for today’s Times suggests that David Cameron has improved the Tory standing but that he has yet… Read more »
iCam and iCan
David Cameron has recorded a seven minute Podcast for The Daily Telegraph about Tony Blair’s Respect agenda – more of… Read more »
US think tank calls for Tory-GOP relationship to be restored
Washington’s Heritage Foundation has just published a paper by Dr Nile Gardiner and John Hulsman entitled "Britain’s Conservatives Must Reclaim… Read more »
Cameron promises ‘subject streaming’ in schools
David Cameron used his brief time as Shadow Education Secretary to change Tory policy on tuition fees (although the Welsh… Read more »
Expect Brown and Cameron to turn competing shades of Orange
LibDem MP Vince Cable, one of 23 parliamentary supporters of Ming Campbell, has written an interesting article for today’s Telegraph. … Read more »
Ming favourite to lead depressed LibDems
A new opinion poll for BPIX finds the LibDems on their lowest opinion poll rating since 2002. It shows the… Read more »
Tebbit demands more beef from Cameron
Simon Heffer, Melanie Phillips, Peter Hitchens, Jeff Randall, Irwin Stelzer, Fraser Nelson, Geoffrey Wheatcroft… and now Norman Tebbit. Former Tory… Read more »
Patricia Hewitt accuses David Cameron of exploiting his son
The Independent on Sunday has an interview with Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. She is clearly unhappy at the way she… Read more »
Kennedy resigns
Charles Kennedy will not be a candidate in the Lib Dem leadership contest. "I am announcing today that when nominations… Read more »
This blog would like to distance itself from today’s FT
Today’s newslinks give a taste of the doomed nature of Charles Kennedy’s leadership. Discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats… Read more »
Tory membership up 16,000 under Cameron
Today’s Telegraph reports that party membership is up 16,000 in the last month. This "leap," the newspaper says, "is believed… Read more »