Support Groups. Policy Development. Backbench Committees. Lord Feldman’s Review. Campaigning. There’s plenty for them to do.
Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, Shailesh Vara – all have played a part in the big push among Indian-origin voters. It needs more money and support.
A candidate with one of the best results in the country says that Party members should be treated as more than a means to a end.
This no-holds-barred conversation will involve members, activists, digital friends, MPs, councillors and professional staff – and I want all the big questions asked.
Plus: The CCHQ charm school. Disgraceful Livingstone. Untruthful Clegg. Nasty Russell Brand. Where I’ll be on election night. And: Advice to candidates for the count.
In the end, the Conservatives are a team. And what I am seeing around the country is that team playing at its best.
Take it all with a pinch of salt. Do your best and, cometh the hour, “treat those two imposters just the same”.
He was the last custodian of a lost Tory tradition of professional party organisation which maintained the Conservatives as a national institution.
Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?
The Public Administration Committee concludes that a key Party instruction to the two SpAds was in breach of the Code of Conduct that binds them.
Donors shouldn’t be phoned and asked not to contribute to non-40/40 seats. Candidates shouldn’t be ordered to support by-elections or risk removal from the list.
Plus: Stephen O’Brien triumphant. What not to wear while canvassing. Commons catering, KFC-style. And: Kensington – that snake-pit of ambitious thrusters.
Plus: Comforting Oborne in the Aegean. Rampant rabbits in the Lords. Lidders Agonistes. McVey’s moment. And: How two Labour MPs banged away in the rifle club.
This is our chance to capitalise on a surge in support and enthusiasm, especially among the young.