And ‘smeargate’ still has legs on its fourth day…
Downing Street will be furious that Guido Fawkes' huge scoop – that started to emerge on Saturday – has still… Read more »
Boris says Labour has lost the moral authority to govern
Boris Johnson on McBride: "This McBride has been in charge, since September, of government strategy. He is meant to be… Read more »
Brown to write letters of personal apology to the targets of McBride’s smears
The BBC also reports that the Prime Minister has requested that the code of conduct for advisers be tightened up… Read more »
The winners and losers from Fawkes v McBride
LOSER: GORDON BROWNThe Prime Minister cannot escape responsibility for the McBride emails. As Jonathan blogged yesterday, the politics of spin… Read more »
Pressure builds on Brown to apologise for the McBride affair – and just what did Tom Watson know about it?
It has now been 24 hours since shadow home secretary Chris Grayling first demanded an explanation from Gordon Brown about… Read more »
Damian McBride’s emails are symptomatic of this Labour administration’s history of character assassination
No surprise that one political story dominates today's newspapers and that is the resignation of Damian McBride as political and… Read more »
Chris Grayling says Gordon Brown has questions to answer over McBride as the News of the World prepares to publish McBride’s emails
Following Damian McBride's resignation late this afternoon, a Downing Street spokesman made the following statement: "The Prime Minister has accepted… | 50 comments
Damian McBride has resigned
Many congratulations to Guido Fawkes. The Prime Minister has apparently said that there is no place in politics for dissemination… Read more »
How the Conservative machine plans to win power for David Cameron
Peter Oborne writes today that a Tory victory is far from certain. He does not believe that there is yet… Read more »
Downing Street’s smear operation against senior Tories set to be exposed
I suggest you keep a close eye on Guido Fawkes' blog this weekend. Guido alleges that a Downing Street operation,… Read more »
The medicine manifesto
Last Wednesday I asked for ideas for unpopular policies that (a) Britain needed and (b) might, through their authenticity, cause… Read more »
Chris Grayling has not sounded the death knell of “hug-a-hoodie”
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling gave this speech in Doncaster yesterday in which he called for a "war on antisocial… | 30 comments
The Conservative Party will not walk by on the other side
Lots of commenters were unhappy at yesterday's remarks by George Osborne about libertarianism. Over at CentreRight Iain Murray posted an… Read more »
Liam Fox attacks Muslim fanatics who branded British soldiers as “babykillers” during homecoming parade
Soldiers returning from Iraq – and marching through Luton as part of a homecoming parade – were greeted with banners… Read more »
Britain needs Conservative social policies more than ever
I’m with Iain Duncan Smith in Washington (we’re off to Ottawa later today for meetings that include a call on… Read more »