The significance of Team 2015

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Membership has been the base on which popular backing for the Conservative Party has… Read more »

Understanding – and winning – seaside seats

I grew up by the seaside, and have always counted myself lucky to do so. Despite being an island nation,… Read more »

George Osborne, the best political strategist we’ve got. (Indeed, the only one we’ve got.)

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Yesterday, Mark Wallace set out in detail on this site George Osborne's patchy record… Read more »

Commons sketch: Cameron wages an unEdifying war of attrition against Balls

By Andrew GimsonFollow Andrew on Twitter David Cameron got the better of this bar-room brawl, but despite the involvement of the… Read more »

Three ways for Cameron to get back on the front foot – and stay there

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Here are three measures that, if implemented – Will help to quell the charge… Read more »

Clegg’s treatment of Elizabeth Truss’s childcare plans throws a harsh light on the Coalition’s future

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Roy Jenkins used to argue that the Conservatives dominated British politics during the last… Read more »

Under one in seven party members want the Coalition to continue into 2015

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. And almost a third want it to end as soon as possible – some… Read more »

A third of Conservative Party members want an electoral pact with UKIP in 2015

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. They divide a third, a third, and a third in our latest survey, issued… Read more »

Redwood wants an EU poll bill. So does Baron. Both raise the question: how long should the Coalition last?

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. John Redwood writes on this site today to advocate a mandate referendum on the… Read more »

A view from Downing Street

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I'm in a position to offer this morning to offer an insight into current… Read more »

The Conservatives must campaign for Justice for England in 2015

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. On this day three years ago, David Cameron and Boris Johnson took themselves off… Read more »

Why senior staff leave Downing Street. They don’t feel Cameron has a mission. Or they don’t think he’ll win. Or both.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Earlier this month, after the news was announced of Rohan Silva's depature from Downing… Read more »

IDS and Osborne complain that the BBC isn’t representing the majority view on welfare

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The graph above comes from YouGov's Joe Twyman. It shows how supporters of ALL… Read more »

Three visits Cameron should make this week to help show what the Romans are doing for us

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. A free school battling for its future in a Labour-held marginal. An imaginative housing… Read more »

How Cameron could end the Coalition

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. LibDem bloggers Stephen Tall and Mark Pack, and Mike Smithson of Political Betting, raised… Read more »