ComRes to put Conservatives 8% ahead
Ben Brogan is confirming the rumours that tomorrow’s Independent will carry a ComRes poll that would give the Conservatives a… Read more »
More members were dissatisfied than satisfied with David Cameron before the Blackpool Conference
On the Saturday before Party Conference we published the findings of our September survey of party members… well, we published… Read more »
Highlights from David Cameron’s immigration and population speech
Further to our earlier post, key sections of David Cameron’s population speech are pasted below (full text here). During the… Read more »
Cameron promises coherent strategy to manage net immigration and its consequences
Later this morning David Cameron will deliver a speech on population and immigration. He’ll be addressing the Policy Exchange think… Read more »
Harriet Harman is right…
Now I’ve got your attention! BBC reports that Harriet Harman wants to ban newspaper adverts for certain escort services: "Ms… Read more »
Is Germany shifting leftwards under Merkel?
I’m in a Starbucks looking up at Cologne Cathedral. About to head to the airport and return home to London…. Read more »
You couldn’t make it up
Today’s Sunday Times: "The Foreign Office has cleared dozens of Iranians to enter British universities to study advanced nuclear physics… Read more »
David Cameron likely to adopt Rifkind plan to address West Lothian Question
The BBC reports this morning, based on a story in The Observer, that the Conservatives are likely to formally adopt… Read more »
Labour 1% ahead in MORI poll tomorrow
Source: Ananova (thanks John Leonard for alerting me!) Ipsos MORI gave the Tories a 3% lead on 11th October. More… Read more »
Promising nationally, acting locally now
One of the great successes of our time in Opposition (at Westminster) has been the resurgence of Conservatives at a… Read more »
Three reasons to be cheerful…
The day started with that encouraging opinion poll. Let me start the weekend with three more pieces of good news:… Read more »
Cameron distances himself from liberal interventionism
David Cameron has just addressed a conference of the CDU/CSU in Berlin. He has used the speech to distance himself… Read more »
George Eustice likely to manage party’s relations with conservative coalition
George Eustice is to stop being the Leader’s Press Secretary from the end of the month. He’s going to take… Read more »
There are eleven times more ‘liberals’ at the BBC than ‘conservatives’
One of the great things about Facebook is that you can find the nichest of niche groups of like-minded people…. Read more »
Tories remain 3% ahead according to YouGov – but voters remain unsure what a Cameron-led government would be like
The headline figures that YouGov have provided for tomorrow’s Telegraph are exactly the same as we saw in The Sunday… Read more »