To bring state bureaucracy under control follow the Pope

For an example of how not to pursue reform, one need not look beyond our own shores

WATCH: David Cameron meets a victim of flooding

On a visit to Yalding the Prime Minister hears complaints about a lack of help

Elections are won with words, but governments succeed through actions

Our politicians do have experience of life outside politics. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong experience.

WATCH: Cameron pays tribute to Mandela

“Nelson Mandela was a hero of all time.”

So, that’s the problem with Tory rightwingers – they’re far too rational!

Tory modernisers are guilty of their own ‘stupid logic’…

Priti Patel MP: Why we must strengthen our relationship with India

Britain should be Europe’s best-placed country to benefit from the increase in prosperity and jobs that India’s economic growth will bring.

Conservatism must be about both statistics and people, competence and compassion

Cameron is right to personalise his message – but he should combine it with mastery of the numbers.

WATCH: David Cameron’s tribute to John Cole

John Cole was “a BBC titan.”

The decline and fall of full employment

One million unemployed used to be intolerable. Now we barely notice 2.5 million.

Iain Dale’s Friday Diary: Russell Brand. Good taste in football teams. But when it comes to politics…

Also: dreadful policemen. Idle George Galloway. Equal Britain. Glorious Dubrovnik…and my passion for Katie Price

Michael Burnett: Europe – Those whom the gods wish to destroy…

Those in our party who are calling for an early referendum risk undermining the Prime Minister’s clear theme for re-negotiation of “good for Europe/good for Britain”.

In It Together: Andrew Gimson reviews Matthew d’Ancona’s penetrating account of a coalition that cannot explain itself

The book provides a feast of material – and is too canny to pretend to say the last word on its topic.

Is Cameron waking up to his Defence difficulties?

Downing Street suddenly realises how this could mobilise Tory MPs against the Government, as well as potentially push some voters towards UKIP.

David Cameron’s Party Conference speech in full

“Together we’ll build that land of opportunity.”

Cameron’s positive vision for the future must be the start, not the end, of our pitch to voters

The Conservatives are seen as good for the economy – now the Prime Minister must persuade voters we are good for them and their family, too.