Reckless talk costs confidence

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter A doctor or a solider or a teacher or anyone else in public service… Read more »

John Hayes: Tilting at wind farms, pushing for Cabinet promotion

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Ed Davey is the Climate Change Secretary, John Hayes is his junior Minister, and… Read more »

Andrew Mitchell’s Bonfire of the Vanities

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter I was first elected to the Commons in the year that Andrew Mitchell returned… Read more »

The end of Mitchell spells the end for Leveson

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Strictly speaking, it was not the lobby and the media that forced Andrew Mitchell's… Read more »

Gove wants an EU referendum as well as a renegotiation – and the Government to concentrate on getting the latter right

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter I wrote recently that with most Conservative MPs and party member in favour of… Read more »

The bully isn’t Andrew Mitchell – it’s the Police Federation

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter "His views are less important than his disposition.  He is one of those men… Read more »

50% of Tory members are satisfied with David Cameron. 49% are not.

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The charts below summarise the main findings of the latest ConHome poll of Tory… Read more »

Could this be the Tory Cabinet of 2020? Boris as PM and the Class of 2010 holding most of the big briefs…

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Please click on the image to enlarge. The Conservatives meet in Birmingham after a… Read more »

The seven government departments David Cameron should scrap at the next reshuffle

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. At the last reshuffle, David Cameron did something quite unusual: he didn't change the… Read more »

Tory members give their overall verdict on the reshuffle

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I've already published some of the results of our reshuffle reactions poll – your… Read more »

The hard truth: Most Ministers are sacked. And Cameron had to fire some

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter David Cameron, George Osborne, Boris Johnson and I were the four backbench musketeers deputed… Read more »

“If you’re a new bloke, you don’t get made a Minister unless you’re a mate of George’s, a mate of Eric’s, or a doctor”. Discuss

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter "So after the smoke has cleared, we are left with…a figure of just three… Read more »

What’s your verdict on the reshuffle?

Lots of questions on all of the big moves and a special question on what you want from the new… Read more »

Cameron: Man or mouse? Man – and butcher!

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter A list of nearly the whole new Government has now been published: Cameron the… Read more »

Why Laws’s appointment could threaten the success of Gove’s Tory Flagship Department

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Yesterday morning, Michael Gove was the monarch of all he surveyed in the department… Read more »