Any proposal for a second Coalition should be put to all Party members – not just MPs
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. David Cameron is absolutely right to plan properly for post-2015 election negotiations, as the… Read more »
Will the Lobbying Bill give Cameron the power to close down ConservativeHome?
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I'm presuming that the headline on this article is what John Rentoul would call… Read more »
Party membership data has much to teach us about how well – or how badly – we campaign
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. The party membership figures available to us are only a partial picture, but analysing them against… Read more »
Is Cameron and Merkel’s EU rebel alliance really a new hope?
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. There are two schools of political thought on August campaigning. Many groups, MPs and departments essentially… Read more »
There’s a conservative case for reducing prison numbers – Conservatives ought to talk about it
Wouldya just look at that graph above? It shows the vertiginous increase in our prison population since 1990. Back then, there were… Read more »
Please, Chancellor, don’t be tempted to extend Help to Buy in the Tory manifesto
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Reading the papers, this week, has been like running into a brick wall. There are… Read more »
A-Level results show pupils, not just ministers, want greater academic rigour
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Today's A-Level results provide further evidence that the simplistic grade-is-good analysis is being replaced by an… Read more »
We may not be able to solve Egypt’s crisis, but we should stop making it worse
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Complex problems always attract people who think they have a simple solution. The bitter experience of… Read more »
“No-nonsense Villiers puts her credentials on parade”
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Northern Ireland's marching season has a coat-trailing element, in which loyalists and republicans behave… Read more »
In praise of older politicians
By Andrew GimsonFollow Andrew on Twitter Labour needs to bring “grown-ups” such as Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson into the shadow… Read more »
Unemployment keeps falling, employment keeps rising; now we must focus on those at risk of being left behind
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. As with every month, the new labour market statistics paint a complex picture. Measures of employment,… Read more »
The number of full-time Conservative members registered with the electoral commission last year was 58,884
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times (£) both burrowed into the Electoral Commission's… Read more »
Help to Buy isn’t just one scheme – it’s two very different things
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. The Treasury's Help To Buy scheme, which will guarantee billions of pounds worth of mortgages, has… Read more »
The Conservative economic poll lead soars. But Labour’s overall poll lead stays.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. ICM produced a poll recently which showed that the Conservatives had drawn level with… Read more »
“The ethnic minority vote is bigger than the majority of the sitting MP in no fewer than 168 constituencies”
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. "Bluntly, the Conservative Party’s problem with ethnic minority voters is costing it seats," Lord… Read more »