Richard Holden: The Chancellor shouldn’t try to win a spending arms race with Labour – which we would lose anyway

Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is: it’s all about economic credibility, stupid. Because come 2024, it certainly will be.

Jay Singh-Sohal: It’s not just London. Knife crime is a huge problem in the West Midlands

Labour has chosen a Corbynista as its Police and Crime commissioner candidate. He won’t provide the action we need.

Richard Graham: We failed to make the case for business in June. We must do so once again at Party Conference – and after.

Conservative values underpin what it can achieve – whether in apprenticeships, manufacturing exports, jobs or contributions to good causes.

“I’m afraid there is no money” – the note itself comes to light

By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. At last, the famous note written by Liam Byrne to David Laws, his successor at the… Read more »

Labour split on welfare reform

By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter   Writing in the Daily Telegraph this morning the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk… Read more »

Five things we’ve learnt about Ed Miliband’s Labour from their Manchester conference

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Labour’s five-day jamboree ends today. There will be a closing speech by Harriet Harman at… Read more »

Boom! Labour concedes principle of regionalised state pay and benefits.

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In today's Telegraph Liam Byrne announces that Labour will support the Coalition's benefit cap as… Read more »

Launching the Do Not Underestimate Labour Association

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Conservatives have had some fun at Ed Miliband's expense this week. Today's Sun revelled in… 7 January 2012

Ken’s tactics to portray Boris as lazy backfires – raising questions about his own workrate as Mayor of London

By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter  In an embarrassing twist for Ken Livingstone's election campaign, statistics used to accuse Boris of… Read more »