We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.
Plus: The SNP take over a bar, a rumpus at Women to Win, no booze at Steve Hilton’s book launch…and from Russia with Love to Soames.
Sarah Newton is the Member of Parliament for Truro and Falmouth. This weekend, Conservative Party members will choose who will represent our Party at the European Parliament elections in 2014. Ballot papers going out over the next few days will allow all members to have a say over the Conservatives who will carry on the fight […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of Grant Shapps' first acts as the new Tory Chairman has been to ask for the election countdown clock to be put back on the wall of Conservative HQ. Meeting him yesterday afternoon he told me that there were less than 1,000 days until the next general election […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Robert Halfon, the Member of Parliament for Harlow, and one of the most successful campaigning MPs in Parliament, has organised a motion, backed by 60 MPs from all parties, and including 41 Tories, calling for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate allegations of price-fixing by British oil companies. […]
Sarah Newton is the Member of Parliament for Truro and Falmouth. With the average family now spending more than a quarter of their income on childcare, it is vital that we find ways to encourage new ways of working that are flexible and allow parents to spend time looking after their children while still being able […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. 4pm update: People's Pledge sources tells me that Anne Marie Morris, the MP for Newton Abbot has come out in support of a referendum. Mike Freer, the MP for Finchley and Golders Green, has also backed a referendum. This is significant because Freer was not one of the 81 rebels, […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter I recently profiled the 2020 and Free Enterprise groups of Tory MPs. Those two groups are formed by ideology: MPs are attracted to the groups because, in the case of the Free Enterprise Group, members wish to open up markets and make Britain business-friendly enough to compete with other world class economies. The 2020's […]
Sarah Newton is the Member of Parliament for Truro and Falmouth. Her article is the fifth in a seven part series of articles by Conservative MPs, each discussing the Coalition's policies to get more people into good homes. Now is the time to be focusing on building new homes – especially for people earning modest incomes. A decent […]
Evidence shows that it is in the financial interests of businesses to improve their treatment of workers with care responsibilities.