“We are with you”: The theme of Cameron’s speech to Conservative Spring Forum

The speech set out the relevance of Conservative policies and achievements for pensioners, families and the young.

WATCH: Cameron heckled by pensioners at Age UK rally

As Chris Ship of ITV noted on Twitter: “And this is the group this govt has insulated from austerity…”

Lord Ashcroft: Labour and the Conservatives are neck and neck in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus groups in Leamington and Dewsbury; and if the party leaders were singers, whom would they be?

Iain Dale: A foreign nurse tells me that Brits don’t want his NHS job. He has a point.

Plus: Two policemen’s child abuse claims. Lamb for LibDem leader. Osborne for the Foreign Office. And: why won’t Waterstones stock more copies of Farage’s book?

Adrian Hilton: The deckchairs of Primary Care restructuring meet the iceberg of GP self-employment

Doctors need a moratorium on change to let them catch their breath. But with votes to win, the urge to make unrealisable promises is too great to resist.

The Left’s five most inaccurate predictions

Five million unemployed…the death of the NHS…from a crowded field, here are the most wildly mistaken instances of lefty scaremongering.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservative lead narrows in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus groups with undecided voters in Northampton and Cardiff; and what would the party leaders do with a Friday night off?

Charlotte Leslie MP: An appeal to my Labour colleagues. The public needs to see this NHS report – so let’s agree it.

After taking so much evidence, drafting a report and considering so many amendments, we should all now meet the responsibility placed on us.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives gain a three-point lead in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus groups. Straw-Rifkind fallout. The latest party political broadcasts. And: if the leaders were holiday destinations, which would they be?

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: How many lives is this trade union protocol putting in danger?

It cannot be right that there are no options in situations in which an ambulance and paramedic team is available
 to attend the scene of a serious accident.

The NHS privatisation that Parliament should be discussing

Public spending on health has risen by 344 per cent over the past 30 years. Is it time to look for money from elsewhere?

WATCH: Bours claims NHS must be entirely tax funded

“There will be no privatisation, no talk of health insurance – at all – within our health insurance policy. Not a whiff.”

UKIP’s new health policy includes ending regular checks on GPs’ competence and knowledge

The “people’s army” will also simultaneously cut bureaucracy and create a whole new raft of bureaucrats, it seems.

David Thomas: Why we need a charter for care workers

It would stipulate a maximum number of hours, and ensure payment for the whole time at work. It is no different from what we expect from our haulage industry.

Dominic Raab MP: Farage himself says that UKIP “isn’t passing the credibility test”. Here’s why he’s right.

A double-talking, flip-flopping, party of spendthrifts will aggravate – not salve – public mistrust of the political class.