
Tom Davies and Geoff Fazackarley: Why the Conservative Councillors Association needs new leadership
We want it to have a higher profile, communicate more with members, and provide better practical assistance.
We want it to have a higher profile, communicate more with members, and provide better practical assistance.
The co-Party Chairman says next year’s local elections will definitely go ahead, and won’t give a figure for Party membership.
The discounted membership is now more widely available; a welcome step in raising recruitment, but only the beginning.
Our party’s ‘internal think tank’ has huge potential to engage new members, drive policy formation, and help us build and defend a ‘blue wall’.
We have allowed the SNP’s constitutional obsession to become our own. The voters deserve a more effective Opposition, and I will provide it.
Our Party’s internal think-tank offers has a crucial role to play in broadening our appeal and devising a winning policy programme.
There are some signs of improvement, and some continued problems. Share your experience with us to inform our analysis.
Cllr Duncan Goodfellow complains Lord Hunt’s message to the association “could be seen as seeking to fetter the independent and impartial decision of members”.
Army officers, political advisers, businesspeople, a London Assembly Member and – unusually – a sitting MP are among the latest crop of finalists.
Her letter to the Prime Minister emphasise that ‘we agreed on just about everything apart from Brexit…I trust in your One Nation outlook’.
The speeding up of turnover rates has almost nothing to do with shifts to the right or left, and much more to do with wider cultural change in Parliament.
The Vice-Chairman of the ’22 served on the Board for nine years, and recently oversaw the leadership contest, so his departure is a surprise.
We reveal the four candidates on tonight’s shortlist – and the unusual way in which the selection has been partially centralised.
You don’t really get closer to unanimous than this in our surveys of Conservative Party members.
She claims that there has been entryism – though the relationship between MP and activists has been bad for some time.