Osborne and Davey both claim victory over green power deal. Green groups attack it.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Householders and business pay £2.35 billion per year towards the costs of green power…. Read more »

The biggest Commons obstacle to the new boundaries could be Conservative MPs themselves

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Reports suggest that Downing Street may seek to push the proposed boundary reforms through… Read more »

George Osborne is refusing to add to overall tax burden in Autumn Statement but may change balance between richer and poorer Britons

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Times has an important report (£) this morning suggesting that Iain Duncan Smith… Read more »

Tory MPs and members grudgingly move towards acceptance of higher council tax on high value properties as price of deficit reduction deal

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter 1.15pm update: Dom Raab MP has made it clear that the report referred to… Read more »

Nick Clegg and David Lidington make the economic argument for staying inside the EU

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter If David Cameron is looking for help from Nick Clegg in defusing tensions over… Read more »

Vote for the Conservative Clean Up Team!

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the themes of Conservative Conference has Boris Johnson being 'on message' –… Read more »

Forget the party conferences. Think instead about what will happen here if Israel bombs Iran

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Cameron is worried that Israel may attack Iran… I returned from Israel and Palestine… Read more »

The Lib Dems are painting the Conservatives as the party of the rich. What’s our response?

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Yesterday, on LeftWatch, Matthew Barrett ran a rolling blog, listing the ways in which… Read more »

The “Gove-Level” deal suggests there’s still some life in the Coalition

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the early 1980s nearly half of the British people identified coalition government as… Read more »

Grant Shapps announces that Tories will select candidates on basis of EXISTING boundaries

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In one of his first big decisions as the new Party Chairman, Grant Shapps… Read more »

Michael Fallon has arrived and he’s gunning against Britain’s red tape

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When David Cameron appointed Michael Fallon and Matt Hancock to the Department of Business… Read more »

The tentacles of the Octopus Chancellor are all over this reshuffle

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter George Osborne wanted to move Iain Duncan Smith from Work and Pensions, and failed. … Read more »

The three big consequences of August 2012: Boundary review gone, Boris rising, rebelliousness growing

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter It is supposedly the silliest month of the year. No big news is said… Read more »

Are Tory MPs wrong to complain about Osborne’s spending priorities?

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Four weeks ago Matthew Parris asked: Why are Tory MPs so "unbelievably lily-livered and… Read more »

A reminder – if we needed one – of the things that the Liberal Democrats are stopping

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Times' Sam Coates has performed a great public service this morning by listing… Read more »