Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamism
I recently reported on an excellent speech by Paul Goodman MP which drew attention to the danger of Islamism (as… Read more »
C2s and ‘security’ boost Labour
PoliticalBetting.com is unimpressed with the reliability of this morning’s Communicate Research poll for The Independent. PB’s Editor Mike Smithson says… Read more »
Tony Blair apologises for Foot & Mouth disaster…
…for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget… for failing to reform welfare… for allowing… Read more »
One year of David Cameron
We are fast approaching the first anniversary of David Cameron’s leadership. ConservativeHome will publish a ‘state of the grassroots opinion… Read more »
‘Doing the right thing’ is getting harder and harder under Labour
The true test of Conservative poverty policy won’t be fine words but whether David Cameron has the guts to take… Read more »
Bad news for Brown and Ming in survey of leadership qualities
A GfK NOP opinion poll for tomorrow’s Sunday Edition programme (ITV1) gives David Cameron a 10% lead over Gordon Brown… | 2 comments
John Major was right about the Scottish Parliament
In the final dying days of his Government John Major flew to every corner of our country in one last… Read more »
Hague and Osborne bounce back in latest ConservativeHome survey
Processing snags associated with the new software underpinning the ConservativeHome Members’ Panel means the latest results are only being published… Read more »
A conservative approach to fighting poverty
I’ve just returned from David Cameron’s speech to The Scarman Trust. I camcordered a key extract and you can see… Read more »
Cameron and Ashcroft are both wrong on political funding
BBC News is reporting that Lord Ashcroft has suggested that moves toward state funding of political parties are "nonsense". In… Read more »
Cameron: Acting against relative poverty is new Tory goal
Hot on the heels of Greg Clark’s intervention of yesterday, this is what David Cameron will say tomorrow: “I want… Read more »
It’s time to put Missile Defence back on the agenda
Britain’s nuclear deterrent is back in the news with this morning’s Independent reporting that Tony Blair is "bouncing" the Cabinet… Read more »
Tories want you to fight ‘the tosser within’
Post-Falklands Margaret Thatcher once fought ‘the enemy within’ (Scargillite militancy)… Cameron’s Conservatives are fighting ‘the tosser within’ (the conniving parasite… Read more »
Security first, politics second
Read David Cameron’s full speech (4200 words) here. "We must not allow the security of this country to become a… Read more »
Afghanistan, Darfur and Trident dominate PMQs
Ming Campbell asked the Prime Minister about Trident. David Cameron’s questions focused on Darfur but there was also this exchange… Read more »