
James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month
Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.
Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.
Treat claims of a communalist election with suspicion. The evidence suggests that ethnic minority voters prioritise domestic issues over foreign policy ones.
Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.
Amidst the gathering leadership election debate, there is a lack of focus on who such voters are and where they live.
Updated, plus: the results of four recent contests in target seats – Bishop Auckland, Bristol North West, Crewe and Nantwich, and Ipswich.
There are early signs of a common profile of the seats chosen as targets.
If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.
Free schools are changing lives for the better, and have proved popular despite the early naysaying. Greening must shut down talk of scrapping the policy.
Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.
More spending for the EU has meant sharper austerity for local government.
A handful of gains from the Liberal Democrats do little to disguise a total stalemate between Labour and the Tories in this region.
A Survation poll commissioned by British Future finds that David Cameron’s party won a majority of Hindu votes – and also polled well with other Asian voters in the south.
The fourth in our series investigates the East of England, where the minor parties are making their presence felt in a traditional Tory-Labour front.
Health is a key issue at local as well as national level, and 11 of these troubled institutions are in Conservative-held seats.