Selection Big Bang: 44 seats open applications for would-be candidates
ConHome pressed for more seats to select sooner – it seems CCHQ has listened.
How we won Newark
This by-election was ultimately won by the brute force of a massive activist turnout. It was a vivid demonstration of the importance of a party’s grassroots.
Mel Stride MP: Post Newark – how to deal with UKIP
We should point up that UKIP’s electoral appeal to Left and Right is inconsistent and undeliverable – a ‘have your cake and eat it’ brand of politics.
Iain Dale: My Queen’s Speech. The Liberal Democrats (Abolition of) Bill. The 40p tax threshold up. The Joanna Lumley (Listed status) Bill…
And: Plastic bags. Britain’s arch-nemesis. Norman Tebbit, my hero. Norman Baker, not my hero. Plus: Lutfur Rahman isn’t brave enough to come on my programme.
May and Gove should snog and make up
The brouhaha that disrupted Queen’s Speech Day had more to do with personality than policy – as so often is the case.
Book Review: Bleakness and compassion. “Ben’s Story,” by Lord Tebbit
He brings to this book what he brings to politics: an unwavering sense of perception and authority.
Pinning Down Miliband: Business policy
It’s predators versus providers in the Labour leader’s world. Question is: who’s who?
Jaber Jabbour: Is it racist to give Europeans open-door immigration rights?
Britain’s immigration system should be based on migrants’ merit, not their nationality.
It’s grim down south – or why ministers would rather not find shale gas under Sussex
It looks like Sussex won’t be the new Saudi Arabia after all.
Policy Exchange announce the finalists of their Garden Cities competition
From the Hoo Peninsular to the imaginary City of Uxcester, the Prize gives an insight into how a Garden City might come to pass.
Why the Conservatives and the Alternative für Deutschland should join forces
Tory MEPs could well decide later today to defy Angela Merkel – and form an alliance with Germany’s anti-euro party
Stephan Shakespeare: In defence of big corporations
The idea of a permanent revolution spurred by an anti-big business Conservative government is a nightmare on a par with Miliband’s anti-capitalist rampage.
Grant Shapps MP: A hundred ways in which the Conservatives have delivered for you
We are building a stronger, more competitive economy. And if you work hard, we are on your side. You’ll hear more about this in the Queen’s Speech today.
Bob Blackman MP: The plain packaging of cigarettes will protect the health of young people
What is not Conservative is the extreme and antique nineteenth century liberal position that demands no interference with the claimed “freedom” of companies.
The Queen’s Speech: What should be in but isn’t? What will be in but shouldn’t be?
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Government’s legislative agenda.