By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Conservative Friends of Israel is an influential affiliate group of the Conservative Party which contains perhaps the largest number of Conservative MPs of any group in Parliament. It exists to promote understanding of and support for the State of Israel in the Conservative Party, and its membership reaches the […]
Following today's decision by Ecuador to grant asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in hiding at Ecuador's London embassy, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague said Britain would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country. Britain has a legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden, where he faces rape charges, Mr […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter My series profiling the backbench groups of Tory MPs has usually featured groups with general ideological goals. Groups representing the traditional right or Thatcherite wing of the Party cannot be said to focus on a single area of political life. Nor can newer groups like the Free Enterprise Group, or […]