It is hard to appoint more women to Cabinet when there are few senior women to promote. We count only four at Minister of State level.
The last ten surveys contain mixed news for all parties and some noteworthy results.
Chris Skidmore becomes Deputy Chair.
Recent ConservativeHome authors James Wharton and Guto Bebb are present. Both expressed concern about the consequences for their areas of the offer to Scotland.
TV coverage, Muslim demographics and electoral pressure are helping to move the balance of opinion.
By challenging the German system of consensus politics, Cameron made himself a hero for a day.
Priti Patel and Penny Mordaunt are both tipped to join the Government.
The shuffle sends out a clear message to Conservative MPs: stay on the right side of the Chancellor. Theresa May and Boris Johnson should note it too
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Having reshaped his Cabinet substantially last summer – sacking two Cabinet Ministers in the process – David Cameron is unlikely to do so again during this one. This is because to do so would both risk destabilising his already fractious Parliamentary Party, and offend his instinct to keep changes […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Eighteen months or so ago, I asked on this site why pro-EU Conservatives are so shy of making that case? That question may now become redundant – at least as far as a new group of Tory MPs is concerned. Laura Sandys speaks for a newly-formed European Mainstream Group […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter It might be assumed that the overwhelming majority of Tory MPs are adamantly opposed to prisoners voting. Not so – at least, if yesterday's Commons statement is anything to go by. By my count, David Davis, Gerald Howarth, Nick de Bois, Eleanor Laing, Peter Bone, James Clappison, Christopher Chope, […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Here's David Cameron's statement: “I would like to congratulate Barack Obama on his re-election. I have really enjoyed working with him over the last few years and I look forward to working with him again over the next four years. There are so many things that we need to do: […]
My generation are a generation who don’t watch TV and don’t read newspapers – but do watch YouTube and get their news from Facebook.