Does this result reflect anything more than the usual reflex suspicion of CCHQ?
Frankly, we need to get through all this without a split. Resources neutrality is essential to that end.
Plus: We need to care more for our candidates post-election. And: A recruiting brainwave from Conor Burns.
These findings send a clear message to the Feldman Review: let’s not throw everything at the target seats and keep nothing for building up our vote elsewhere.
A survey asks: “Do you agree with introducing bursaries to help people who might struggle with the financial cost of being a Parliamentary candidate?”
We need a bigger Conservative movement, and I believe we should build it using the only economic system that really works – private enterprise.
Should members and registered supporters have the same rights? What about city and county federations? Should the Party Chairman be elected? All this and much more.
Plus: Zac Goldsmith tells me that he won’t stand in a by-election if the Heathrow decision fails to go his way.
The Trade Union Bill is right. But it ends the effective truce on Party funding – so let’s prepare ourselves now for Labour’s revenge strike.
The man he supplants from that position? David Cameron.
Get involved in our review.
This is our chance to capitalise on a surge in support and enthusiasm, especially among the young.
Support Groups. Policy Development. Backbench Committees. Lord Feldman’s Review. Campaigning. There’s plenty for them to do.
We should not allow a small number of recalcitrant ones to use self-interest to block essential reforms which in our hearts we all know must come.