David Cameron is on Parkinson tonight – I’ll open a thread once the programme starts at 10.45pm on ITV1. The Tory leader appears alongside Lewis Hamilton, James Blunt and Ian McKellen but doesn’t get a mention in the advance billing for the programme. On the programme David Cameron talks about the time he met Kate […]
Know any good political jokes? Here’s an adaptation of an American one we saw on the ASI’s blog: A lobbyist on his way home from working in Parliament came to a stop in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this traffic jam seems worse than usual." Then he noticed a police officer walking between the […]
Well that was quick! We were over 150 comments away when we announced the prize yesterday evening. Letters From A Tory, a blogger and Conservative Future member, made the 100,000th comment on ToryDiary ten minutes ago. We’ve contacted him and the David Cameron signed bottle (and mug) will be winging its way to him shortly. […]
In the next few days we’re expecting our 100,000th comment to be made on a ToryDiary post. To celebrate, we will send the commenter who makes that landmark comment a very limited edition bottle of Bottler Brown ale. A few of these bottles were made for a light-hearted "protest" outside Downing St after Brown bottled […]
Great story in The Telegraph. Earlier this year we reported EU plans to establish a big ‘Embassy’ in London. It now appears that both Smith Square’s old Tory HQ – scene of Margaret Thatcher’s election triumphs – and Victoria Street’s above-Starbucks HQ are leading candidates to be the home of this Embassy. From homes of […]
1. This will be the only ever news event that Gordon Brown doesn’t reannounce. 2. James Purnell won’t want to be in the picture of Brown’s Andrew Marr interview. + Guido now thinks Brownites should now be known as Brownies ;-)
Last Saturday we offered a mug to the reader who got the best score on the newly-launched Taxman Gordon game. "Gav" is the highest person in the high scores with CH after their name, and second in general only because of the ridiculously high score of "El Bambi". Well done Gav, email me with your […]
After watching the international development debate I stayed in the press balcony to catch up on some emails. The high quality session was, unfortunately, very poorly attended and the hall quickly emptied as people left for lunchtime fringe events. One after another half-a-dozen candidates then trickled into the hall. Each was accompanied by a friend […]
Yesterday evening we highlighted James Purnell’s fake photo drama. ConservativeHome readers have found some more fake photos overnight…
Jeremy Hunt MP has described the position of his opposite number – James Purnell, the Culture Secretary – as "increasingly untenable" after it was revealed that he had agreed to have his image added to a photo of a hospital opening – to which he was late. The fake image can be viewed on the […]
Nicolas Sarkozy’s holiday in America is a first for a sitting French president. It’s certainly the first time that a sitting French President has holidayed in the US. A few years ago American conservatives were boycotting ‘French fries’ in protest at Jacques Chirac’s anti-Americanism. Restaurants in southern states chose to serve ‘freedom fries’ instead. How […]
Asked this afternoon about the increased power of cannabis the Tory leader spoke about the time he recently attended the arrest of some young men in possession of drugs… "Before the bag was even open, the smell… unbelievably strong. Grown in greenhouses this skunk is unbelievably powerful. And it is completely different to… [laughter]… I […]
Brown and Harman.
Liverpool is undoubtedly the worst UK city to offend (ask The Sun, Bulgaria and convicted murderers). I remember being in Liverpool the morning that ill-fated "wallowing in victimhood" Spectator editorial was published, I must have been one of about three people in the area who read it before the Liverpool Echo picked up on it. […]
ConservativeHome.com has learnt of a secret CCHQ policy group that is drawing up radical plans to complete David Cameron’s modernisation of the Conservative Party. The group, which has been meeting over Petit Chablis in Notting Hill wine bars, is drawing up plans to ensure that Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s last monarch. "It will be […]