Lord Baker persists with quota plan for new faith schools
According to reports in today’s newspapers (including The Telegraph) former Tory Chairman Kenneth Baker is determined to press ahead with… Read more »
‘Neither the guts to rule Iraq, nor the guts to quit’
The headline of this post – or something very like it – appeared on the front page of The Guardian,… Read more »
Update on ‘MEPs vote for Euro’ story
ConservativeHome’s exclusive yesterday that Tory MEPs had been whipped to vote for a report that included support for British membership… Read more »
46% to 33% prefer Cameron to Brown
The ConservativeHome poll of polls and a new survey for The Daily Telegraph from YouGov both give the Tories a… Read more »
Tory MEPs vote for Euro membership
ConservativeHome recently noted how Tory MEPs voted in favour of a greater European dimension to education. Today they voted for… Read more »
Let’s roll forward the frontiers of society
A couple of weeks ago ConservativeHome noted David Miliband’s unimpressive attempt to mount an intellectual attack on ‘Cameronism’. Antonia Cox… | 23 comments
Greg Barker MP leaves wife and kids for man
Today’s Daily Mirror is reporting that, over the summer, Tory environment spokesman Greg Barker MP left his wife and two… Read more »
Richard Ottaway, Graham Stuart and John Whittingdale elected to Party Board
This is good news for the right of the party who had hoped to see Whittingdale elected. It is also… Read more »
Cameron: Britain is not safe under Labour
David Cameron highlighted crime during today’s PMQs: "The Chancellor told us he was going to freeze the assets of terrorists…. Read more »
Council tax inspectors?
As Caroline Spelman warned last year, it appears the Government is using Northern Ireland to roll out plans to give… Read more »
Tory lead up to 10% as Labour collapses to 29%
"Support for Labour has dropped to its lowest level for almost 20 years, according to an opinion poll. The ICM… Read more »
I’m £100 poorer
Some time ago, when I was very confident that David Cameron would deliver his EPP pledge in a timely way,… Read more »
Cameron commends ‘Kirklees model’ where young pay for older residents’ council tax rises
In his speech (a pdf of which is here) yesterday to Age Corncern the Tory leader highlighted a scheme run… Read more »
English Constitutional Convention is established
A letter to this morning’s Telegraph announces the establishment, today, of an English Constitutional Convention (more here). The Convention "has… Read more »
Strathclyde derides Straw’s ‘yes-men’ Lords scheme
The LibDem leader in the House of Lords may have welcomed Jack Straw’s reform plan but the leader of the… Read more »