“Ignore the naysayers, ignore the doom-mongers. Ignore those who keep talking us down.” – Tugendhat’s Spring Forum speech

“Yes, there are challenges…but this is a moment for imaginative thinking.” Read his full foreign policy analysis.

Nicky Morgan: A stark truth. We’re not doing well enough among women. Here’s how we can do better.

Unless we find a way to win over those in their forties, thirties and younger, we will have an even bigger problem at the next election.

“If something is in the national interest, it is always in the Conservative interest.” May’s speech to Spring Forum – full text

“We back aspiration and ambition. We want everyone, from every background, to be able to go as far as their talents and hard work can take them.”

Brandon Lewis: As we meet for our Spring Forum, far-left intimidation is on the rise. But we will not be silenced.

Free speech is fundamental to a free country. So we must all make sure that Conservative voices are heard – even where they may not always be welcome.

Conservative Party events should give a platform to Leave, not just Remain

Using official Party events to make the case for Remain without a balancing voice is a breach of neutrality.

Cameron: It was right to raise taxes when Britain last faced a debt crisis

Speaking to the Tory Spring Forum in Cheltenham the Tory leader said tax increases were the right thing to do… Read more »

Lansley promises to secure spending on healthcare as part of a ten point SAVE OUR NHS plan

Shadow Secretary of State for Health has just addressed the Cheltenham Spring Forum.  He set out a ten point healthcare… Read more »

Theme of Spring Forum will be ‘Routemap to Recovery’

Jonathan Isaby and I will both be at the party's Spring Forum in Cheltenham next weekend, 25th to 26th April. … Read more »

Back from Nottingham

As I head back to Salisbury here are a few random reflections on the Nottingham Spring Forum… Although attendance seemed… Read more »

Cameron: I’ll take the tough decisions

David Cameron has used his Spring Forum address to show that he is not a politician who’ll say anything to… Read more »

Notes from Nottingham

William Hague’s speech: A few weeks ago I wrote for The Guardian’s Comment is free and welcomed the more balanced… Read more »

William Hague under fire for outside interests

Simon McGee, Political Editor of the Yorkshire Post, effectively accuses William Hague of being a part-time Shadow Foreign Secretary in… Read more »

“New priorities for a new era”

The above graphic is a scan of the programme for this weekend’s Tory Spring conference in Nottingham.  Robert Halfon, our… Read more »

Tory members embrace Cameron’s family agenda but reject the green tax plans

ConservativeHome.com has just completed its March survey of Conservative Party members.  1,320 Tory members took part in an online survey… Read more »

‘Let us be the change’ says Mahatma Cameron

Painting the walls of a few Manchester homes is not to be the end of the Conservative activist’s commitment to… Read more »