10.30pm LeftWatch: Harriet Harman launches massive attack on Liberal Democrats 9.45pm WATCH: VAT increase is 'least worst option', says Vince Cable 6pm On CentreRight: Jill Kirby welcomes the straight-talking Budget Alex Deane has it on good authority that the closure of 150 Magistrates' Courts shall be announced tomorrow Matthew Elliott celebrates the apparent end of […]
10pm Neil O'Brien on CentreRight: The coalition agreement lists 45 areas to "review", "investigate" or "consider" 5.45pm Iain Murray on CentreRight is "extremely impressed" by the deregulation section of The Coalition agreement 5pm Jill Kirby on CentreRight: Reading today's programme for coalition government feels like long walk through some very mixed terrain – in typically […]
9.45pm ToryDiary update: Andrew Feldman appointed Party Co-Chairman to serve alongside Baroness Warsi 8pm ToryDiary: 1922 Chairman election brought forward a week 7.30pm ToryDiary update: Full Cabinet line-up announced 5.30pm LeftWatch update: David Miliband declares he is a candidate for the Labour leadership 5.15pm WATCH: David Cameron outlines the basis behind the coalition at a […]
Midnight Melanchthon on CentreRight: Modern Conservative = Liberal and Democrat? 10.30pm Local government: Radical localism should proceed with Con/Lib Dem coalition 10.15pm David T Breaker on CentreRight: We are all Cleggservatives now 9.30pm ToryDiary: Appointments to the Cameron-Clegg Cabinet 8.45pm ToryDiary: David Cameron is Britain's new Prime Minister 8pm LeftWatch: Brown quits as PM open […]
8.45pm ToryDiary update: David Cameron and Nick Clegg have had a 45-minute meeting in Parliament this evening 8pm Graeme Archer on CentreRight: "We should aim for a Cameron-led Tory-LibDem administration that can stay in office for a reasonable length of time, for at least the next twelve months." 6.45pm WATCH: William Hague's full statement at […]
11.15pm ToryDiary update: Populus poll also has Brown trailing in a poor third 11.15pm WATCH: The leaders clash on the Lib Dems' proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants at tonight's debate 10.45pm ToryDiary: ConHome's expert panel assesses tonight's leaders' debate 10.30pm WATCH: The opening statements from tonight's leaders' debate 10.15pm ToryDiary: YouGov and ComRes both report […]
10pm ToryDiary: Tories 10% ahead in YouGov/Sun poll 8pm ToryDiary: New Harris poll puts Tory lead at 10% as Labour drop to 27% 7.30pm Tea with Pickles: "If you don't like the folks, don't be in our business" 7pm ToryDiary: George Osborne writes to Alistair Darling accusing him of hiding the truth about Labour's jobs […]
10pm ToryDiary update: Tories 37/33 ahead according to YouGov/Sun 9.45pm ToryDiary: Tories down to 35% in Ipsos-MORI 6.30pm WATCH: Eric Pickles talks about CCHQ's online operations 6pm Matt Sinclair on CentreRight: How to cut public spending (and still win an election) 4.30pm ThinkTankCentral: 80% of Winter Fuel Allowance money goes to people NOT in fuel […]
10.45pm Latest CentreRight posts: Melanchthon on the limits of toleration and the demerits of equality Andrew Haldenby blogs that a Reform seminar today concluded that we must ask how to cut spending, not when (since action is needed right now) 6.15pm ToryDiary: Tories recalibrate green message for lean times 5.45pm Paul Goodman MP on CentreRight: […]
9pm Seats and Candidates: The six names in the frame for Bromsgrove – the first to be chosen under the "by-election rules" 4.45pm Sally McNamara on CentreRight: A note to the EU – the Haitian Crisis is not about You 4.30pm Seats and Candidates: Brandon Lewis's Green opponent in Great Yarmouth steps down to support […]
10.45pm ToryDiary: Tories 12% ahead in YouGov poll taken after plot to oust Brown Updated at midnight with further poll details 10.15pm Today's General Election Brief: Miliband is almost a big a loser from the plot as Brown 8pm Parliament: Philip Hammond attacks Labour for pursuing "the most systematically reckless, cynical and dishonest strategy for […]
10.45pm ToryDiary: Tory lead was 9% BEFORE today's attack on Brown's leadership 8.15pm Today's General Election Brief: Hewitt and Hoon's act of self harm is massive boost to Conservatives > Check the rolling blog on LeftWatch throughout the evening for the latest on Labour's leadership crisis 7.30pm WATCH: Eric Pickles calls for a secret ballot […]
Key staff Jill Kirby (a champion of the traditional family and smaller government) has directed the Centre since 2007. Other team members include two Deputy Directors, Tim Knox (who oversees publications) and Jenny Nicholson (responsible for fundraising); Research Director, Sam Talbot-Rice and Research Economist Bimal Dharmasena. The CPS relies on commissioning expert contributions from outside […]
8.30pm ToryDiary: George Osborne needs to impose a "66% of savings must be saved" rule on spending ministries 5.30pm Jill Kirby on CentreRight: Under Labour, poverty has grown 3.45pm ThinkTankCentral: Profile of Reform 3.15pm WATCH: UKIP's hilarious 'Thank you' to outgoing leader Nigel Farage 3pm Local Government: Conservative leader of West Lindsey DC resigns 2.45pm […]
Today is the last chance to book a place at the ConservativeHome/ ConservativeIntelligence conference on the Tory 2010 manifesto. Contributors to the conference include Michael Fallon MP, Daniel Finkelstein, Paul Goodman MP, Jill Kirby, Oliver Letwin MP, Peter Lilley MP, Neil O'Brien and Ian Taylor MP. A full guide to the Tory manifesto will be […]