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Posts Tagged: Esther McVey

The revolt over Huawei is bigger than it looks. It spells trouble for the Prime Minister over security, defence, and veterans.

Troublemaking Tories are no bad thing as the UK moves forward with its 5G contract.

By Charlotte Gill | 12 March 2020 | 41 comments

Our last pre-election Cabinet League Table. It’s a near-tie at the top: Javid, Gove, Johnson, in that order.

Whilst individual ministers rise and fall, overall the Government goes to the polls with a lot of goodwill from grassroots Conservatives.

By Henry Hill | 8 December 2019 | 85 comments

The Election Battlegrounds 3) North West

Our series continues with a look at another key region, which offers a decent clutch of targets to either Labour or the Conservatives on a good night.

By Henry Hill | 8 November 2019 | 12 comments

Battleground Seats 9) North West

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

By Henry Hill | 29 May 2017 | 25 comments

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

By Paul Goodman | 28 April 2017 | 24 comments

Four former MPs selected. Shortlist of two to take on Farron. All the latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Westmorland & Lonsdale, and Birmingham Edgbaston. Plus selections including Barrow & Furness, Ealing Central & Acton, Clwyd South and more.

By Mark Wallace | 27 April 2017 | 19 comments

McVey selected for Tatton

She defeated Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams outright on the first round of voting.

By Mark Wallace | 26 April 2017 | 20 comments

Exclusive: Esther McVey shortlisted for Tatton

The former Wirral West MP and Minister for Employment completes the shortlist, alongside Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams.

By Mark Wallace | 24 April 2017 | 57 comments

Clark Vasey: Eagle now calls out the Hard Left for thuggery. But she said nothing when the target was Esther McVey.

Wirral West saw probably the nastiest, most personalised campaign of last year’s General Election.

By Clark Vasey | 18 July 2016 | 16 comments

Liverpool, the Conservatives – and a last call for Heseltine

The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.

By Paul Goodman | 27 April 2016 | 71 comments

Interview: Priti Patel, Employment Minister, makes the case for hard work and free childcare

She knows about work, and is unembarrassed to talk about it, because her family arrived from Uganda with nothing.

By Andrew Gimson | 2 June 2015 | 28 comments

Battlegrounds Revisited 1) The North West

In the aftermath of the election, we revisit our regional profiles to see how the parties fared compared to expectations.

By Henry Hill | 21 May 2015

Shield

George Osborne has misunderstood the politics and economics of welfare reform

The long-term effects of Osborne’s slash-and-burn approach to welfare are less certain than IDS’s more considered approach.

By Peter Franklin | 27 January 2014 | 10 comments

Argy-bhaji from Pickles at DCLG questions

By Paul Goodman Oral questions in the Commons is changing its tone and nature, at least as far as Communities… Read more »

26 November 2010 | 11 comments

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