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Dehenna Davison: We need to dig deep to understand why more women don’t go into politics – but quotas are not the answer

That means looking into, and addressing, the cultural and working practices which create and maintain significant barriers for women.

By Dehenna Davison MP | 21 December 2020 | 14 comments

Securing the Majority? 2) Tackling electoral fraud

After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?

By Henry Hill | 1 September 2020 | 98 comments

Dan Pitt: In spite of this pandemic, constitutional reforms remain a high priority for Conservatives

Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.

By Daniel Pitt | 15 June 2020 | 90 comments

Why the Cabinet Office will be in the dock for Covid failures when the inquiry comes. As will Sedwill.

The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.

By Paul Goodman | 29 May 2020 | 95 comments

Local elections postponed until 2021

The Electoral Commission had proposed a delay until the autumn. It does leave a number of practical challenges.

By Harry Phibbs | 13 March 2020 | 41 comments

Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.

We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.

By Paul Goodman | 14 February 2020 | 154 comments

Johnson’s reshuffle. If he isn’t Thinking Big it should be Kept Small.

Let Sunak and Dowden join Jenrick at the top table. And that should be about it. If the Coronavirus takes off, Ministerial changes will be the least of our worries.

By Paul Goodman | 10 February 2020 | 55 comments

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.

By Henry Hill | 13 November 2019 | 48 comments

“Conservatives have a proud record of promoting gender equality… we call on you to explain how you will build on this record”

The Conservative Women in Parliament Group’s letter to all the candidates in the leadership election.

12 June 2019 | 17 comments

Appointments 6) Foster mans the barricades at Wales, the Cabinet Office, and the Whips Office

He fills the roles vacated by Nigel Adams, and rounds out Theresa May’s latest bid to fill out at least the higher ranks of her Government.

4 April 2019 | 19 comments

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

By Henry Hill | 28 March 2019 | 55 comments

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

By Henry Hill | 14 March 2019 | 33 comments

The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.

The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.

By Paul Goodman | 4 January 2019 | 61 comments

Mordaunt: Let’s champion “the invisible women who keep…our nation going.” Her women’s suffrage centenary speech: full text

“There’s a lot of focus on women in boardrooms…But this is not the place where business is being re-imagined.”

21 November 2018 | 41 comments

Tatchell defends anti-abortion protests – and tells how he got Cameron and Johnson to support same-sex marriage

The veteran LGBT campaigner says the former Prime Minister’s aides “were terrified I might try and kiss him, or superglue myself to the Cabinet table”.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 June 2018 | 90 comments

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