By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The raising of the income tax threshold may not have been the policy of the Conservative Party at the last election but it's been the policy of the Conservative movement for a long time. Lord Forsyth advocated it when he chaired a tax commission for George Osborne at the beginning […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In today's Times I reflect on the enormous power of George Osborne: "Mr Cameron is the coalition’s chairman and public spokesman. Mr Osborne is its chief executive. This is as much Osborne’s Government as Cameron’s. He isn’t just Chancellor of the Exchequer, masterminding the coalition’s deficit and growth strategy. He […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the reasons why the Conservative Party had such good results in last year's local elections was that many extra Tory voters came out to vote in order to defeat AV. Additionally we had the centre right press all united in campaigning hard against a change to the electoral […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the list of reasons why the Conservatives didn't win the last election a top candidate was the election debates: "The massive audiences for the TV debates threatened to wipe out the advantage given to David Cameron by the support of key newspapers and by his Rolls Royce ground operation. […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter "The trade unions, over this Parliament, under a Conservative-led Government, will still receive more than £500 million pounds of taxpayers’ money." I'll repeat that: "The trade unions, over this Parliament, under a Conservative-led Government, will still receive more than £500 million pounds of taxpayers’ money." And we know where a […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When Tory MPs are most depressed with the failings and compromises of coalition government they comfort themselves with the thought that it is hurting the Liberal Democrats much more than it is hurting Conservatives. The Lib Dems are the bindweed of British politics. Once they've invaded territory they are hard […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I hope you are enjoying this Building A Majority series. It's going to be an uphill struggle to govern on our own after the next election… but it's essential for what we want to achieve… and I believe it's perfectly achievable. After this week the series will take a short […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When I launched Majority Conservatism I listed some of the reasons why winning the next election will be an uphill struggle for the Conservative Party. Two weeks ago I revealed that clouds of gloom had descended on Downing Street as Cameron's advisers struggled to identify a clear path to a […]