Conservative HQ briefs Tory members on its battleground strategy
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Birmingham Post's Jonathan Walker posted a report yesterday on the Conservative Party's 40/40… Read more »
If George Osborne could have designed an ideal Labour opposition he would have chosen the Ed Miliband operation
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter George Osborne is ready to attack the Labour brand In my column for The… Read more »
Building a Conservative Majority (21): A Welsh Tory Welsh Secretary, representing a seat in Wales
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I've been running a mini-campaign to get one of our Welsh MPs appointed as… Read more »
Thou shalt not be a Left or Right-wing Conservative Party but as broad in your concerns as the British people
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter On yesterday's Comment is free website Professor Tim Bale listed the Ten Commandments of Electorally… Read more »
“Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday”. Discuss.
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter On last night's World Tonight I claimed that the loss of boundary reviews was the… Read more »
Drop gay marriage. Commit to the NHS. Cut foreign aid. Attack Miliband. Leave Afghanistan.
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Over the last few days we've been publishing your rating of 23 ideas to win… Read more »
60% of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter This is the fourth instalment of a series of blogposts examining which of 23 ideas… Read more »
It’s the economy stupid: Tory members see recovery as the key to majority
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Over the last few days we've been examining the potency of 23 ideas to win… Read more »
Tory grassroots see blue collar message as more important to Tory fortunes than Europe, crime or immigration
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Nearly two weeks ago ConHome readers ranked the potency of 23 ideas to win the… Read more »
Installing Boris as Tory leader comes 20th in list of 23 ways to win next election
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Borismania hits a new peak today with a Sun/ YouGov opinion poll suggesting that the… Read more »
Lord Ashcroft sets out four tests that policies should pass if the Conservatives are to be electorally successful
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Last night I listed ten big takeaways from Lord Ashcroft's latest megapoll on the… Read more »
Ten things we learn from Lord Ashcroft’s latest mega poll on the path to a Tory majority
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Lord Ashcroft has just published the third edition of his 'Project Blueprint' polling* –… Read more »
Building a Conservative Majority (20): Make more use of MPs
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the Conservative Party's most important and under-used assets is its MPs. Within… Read more »
The most natural coalition in British politics is between the Liberal Democrats and…Labour
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter The Liberal Democrats: now closer to their Coalition partner on economic matters… I studied… Read more »
Building a Conservative Majority (19): A researched campaign against Ed Miliband’s politics
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Every voter complains that they hate negative campaigning but every political party engages in it….