To Sayeeda Warsi falls the duty of countering Nick Clegg… and defending Margaret Thatcher’s tax system

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Thatcher's tax settlement… Margaret Thatcher inherited economic ruin and high taxes, and the two… Read more »

How Liberal Democrats can gain ownership of the Coalition – while Conservatives get on with boosting growth

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Next year will see no return to the romance of the rose garden politics… Read more »

61% of Tory members think early General Election would produce a majority for Cameron

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Welcome back! I hope all readers had a great Christmas. While we were eating turkey… Read more »

The Coalition’s twenty biggest achievements in 2011

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In a Christmas and new year message to Tory MPs David Cameron has identified the… Read more »

Conservatives worry about Clegg’s increasingly petulant reaction to EU veto

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Conservative insiders are worried that the fallout from the EU veto might be greater than… Read more »

Cameron must not let Clegg disembowel the veto

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the criticisms of Cameron's veto is that he hasn't stopped other EU states… Read more »

In three big decisions Clegg, Cameron and Miliband have each defined themselves

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter "At a certain point in a political leader’s career, a national idea of what they… Read more »

The three things Cameron should do next on the EU

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Click on Carla Millar's drawing to enlarge Over the last 24 hours we have learnt… Read more »

Clegg blames Cameron’s “diplomatic ineptitude” for outcome of EU talks while Ashdown attacks PM’s “unwise lecturing” of €uro leaders

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Last night we learnt that the British people overwhelmingly back the Prime Minister on Europe…. Read more »

David Cameron tells Cabinet that an EU referendum would tear Coalition apart

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The brilliant Dr Lee Rotherham has produced a paper for The TaxPayers' Alliance on a… Read more »

The £30 billion question: What should we cut next?

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Last week George Osborne announced that austerity wouldn't end in time for the next election… Read more »

IDS seeks common ground with Liberal Democrats on family policy; Let’s Just Stop Penalising Stability

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Daily Mail savages the Coalition on an almost daily basis and this week's confrontations… Read more »

How the Government could break down over Europe

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. It is now possible to see how Conservative discipline and the Government itself could… Read more »

Trust in Cameron on Europe is breaking down. He should bring in the ’22 to repair it.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Roughly half of Conservative backbenchers failed to back David Cameron yesterday evening – the… Read more »

Conservative Ministers furious over LibDem adviser appointments

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. New Governments often over-react to the errors of the one before.  Tony Blair succeeded… Read more »