The new dividing line among would-be Tory leadership candidates: experience versus a “new generation”

In previous contests, service in Cabinet was seen as a requirement. Now it could even be seen as a weakness.

Iain Dale: This week’s media assault on Leadsom is astonishing – and she has done well to survive it

Plus: the downfall of Boles. This Eagle won’t fly. What to do with Gove? Cameron should become Foreign Secretary. And: Out there in the country, Blair is still popular.

Securing the Majority 5) Welcome, new Downing Street team. Now get a grip on appointments.

Number 10, Matthew Hancock, the Whips, Ministers themselves: all must ensure that Sir Humphrey’s grip is loosened.

Paterson’s sacking is a mistake. But he is now free to push climate scepticism and Brexit from the backbenches

I cannot think his replacement will be so determined to reduce environmental red tape and Europe’s influence on countryside matters.

Too many Etonians? Send for Halfon

The Harlow MP offers a solution to a complaint made by some of his fellow Conservative backbenchers.

The lesson of Damian McBride’s memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party

In 2001 or so, I wrote a speech for Iain Duncan Smith that went well enough, and was drafted on… Read more »

UKIP is part of a global splintering of the Right and is probably here to stay

By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former head of communications, has written an article for… Read more »

Downing Street’s Corporal Jones moment?

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I asked yesterday whether David Cameron or the Whips bore the main responsibility for… Read more »

An inner Cabinet. More status for Whips. Changes in his circle – and at the Foreign Office. What Cameron should do next.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Yesterday evening's vote makes no real difference to anything.  The economy will continue to… Read more »

Perhaps David Cameron does read ConHome…

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Earlier this week The Spectator's James Forsyth reported that the PM's trusted aide Gaby… Read more »

The Number 10 operation is beefed up by two wise choices

By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. It's been common knowledge for a while that Cameron's team have been looking at a Number… Read more »

Yesterday’s statements won’t quell the Lynton Crosby controversy

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I wrote last week that Lyton Crosby should first drop his other clients, and… Read more »

From firmness on internet standards to wobbliness on Crosby – Cameron’s Marr interview

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter David Cameron was chin-juttingly firm about many subjects in his interview with Andrew Marr. On… Read more »

Crosby: Will Cameron adopt the ConservativeHome solution?

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The Andy Coulson saga involves a trial.  The Lynton Crosby controversy does not.  This… Read more »

First drop Crosby’s other clients. Then put him completely in charge.

It doesn't seem to have occured to Lynton Crosby's critics that he could both have a commercial interest in a… Read more »