10% of people who will vote Tory in a General Election will vote UKIP in June’s Euro elections
That’s the suggestion of a YouGov poll carried out by The Taxpayers’ Alliance and Global Vision and released to tomorrow’s… Read more »
Derek Draper’s LabourList.org nears launch
The Observer is reporting that LabourList.org – the webchild of Derek Draper – is nearing launch day. You can view… Read more »
Notes on Conservative foreign policy
The decision by William Hague and David Lidington to speak against Israel’s attempts to disarm Hamas is the latest indication… Read more »
You want an alternative to Heathrow, an elected Party Chairman, to go back to the seaside…
…but you don’t want an English Parliament or a disestablished Church. The final results of our end-December survey are summarised… Read more »
Dominic Grieve announces plan to restore trust in crime statistics
Shadow Home Secretary, Dominic Grieve, has today announced two key reforms to the handling of crime statisics which would be… Read more »
Conservatives make their ELEVENTH call on Labour to enact a guarantee for bank lending
Speaking at Policy Exchange this morning George Osborne renewed his call for Gordon Brown to enact a guarantee for bank… Read more »
High marks for Grayling and Pickles reflect grassroots’ expectations of shadow cabinet
Posted below are the latest numbers for grassroots satisfaction with the shadow cabinet. Most notable is the fall in satisfaction… Read more »
Tory lead 7% in new YouGov poll
A YouGov poll for tomorrow’s Sun newspaper puts the parties on the following percentages: Comparisons are with the last pre-Christmas… Read more »
Alan Duncan remains popular with grassroots despite ‘friendly fire’ from CCHQ
Alan Duncan is receiving quite a bit of friendly fire at the moment. An unnamed Tory MP tells today’s Telegraph:… Read more »
Interest rates cut to 1.5%
The Bank of England has just announced that interest rates have been cut by 0.5% to 1.5%. As the BBC… Read more »
Doctors’ faith in the Conservative Party has been restored
The Daily Telegraph today carries news of a significant survey which shows the extent to which the medical profession has… Read more »
Full membership of Conservative-UUP Joint Committee announced
Last November saw the agreement between David Cameron and Sir Reg Empey of the Ulster Unionist Party about forming an… Read more »
Shadow Cabinet return for Ken Clarke increasingly on the cards
Today’s newspapers include further strong hints that Ken Clarke is poised to make a return to the Conservative frontbench for… Read more »
‘Spelman in the clear’
That is what the Evening Standard’s Paul Waugh is reporting. I certainly hope so. Caroline Spelman might never have been… Read more »
Six hopes for a Conservative reshuffle
I bumped into four MPs in Westminster yesterday. Three of them talked about the Tory reshuffle and one predicted it… Read more »