Affordable and reliable: the Conservatives can only defeat Miliband’s energy proposal with a viable plan of their own
We need energy that is both affordable and reliable. Labour offer one at the expense of the other – we must offer both.
The Conservatives must mean business
There is a golden chance for Cameron after Miliband’s speech yesterday to show that lower taxes and less regulation are the route to better public services, lower energy bills and more homes
“Godfrey Bloom stamped on my face!” – UKIP’s growing-up process sees the end of an era
Ditching Bloom is a departure from a past that could hold them back. The angst of UKIP’s growing up process will be interesting to watch.
Labour’s housing target lacks any credibility
Simply announcing a target is a poor subsidy for a policy. The Labour Party announce a target of 200,000 new homes a year. Why not 250,000? Or 150,000? The figure seems to have plucked out of the air.
Ed Balls opposes HS2 for the wrong reasons: pretended prudence and short-term savings
Is it really necessary or so many of us to rush from one city to another? But let us accept that growth is desirable, and that we need greater capacity
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What does the German election result mean for Cameron’s EU renegotiation?
The new anti-Euro party, the AfD, fell just short of the 5 per cent threshold required to secure Bundestag seats. Without eurosceptic pressure, Merkel might well simply leave Cameron flapping in the wind.
The case for reforming hate crime against disabled people
Attitudes towards disabled people have been transformed over the past 20 years or so, and it was a Conservative Government which implemented the first disability discrimination bill.
Labour has £28 billion worth of unfunded spending commitments – Shapps
I’m not going to report each time the Party Chairman announces a new attack website, but here’s today’s, timed for the start of Miliband’s Conference.
Watch Sajid Javid
It’s no surprise to see Conservative attack dog Chris Grayling sinking his fangs into Labour’s spending pledges in today’s Sunday… Read more »
Politics is about more than maths – Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform
At last we have a clear Labour Party policy in place for the 2015 General Election. They have given a… Read more »
Introducing…UKIP’s White Company
Guido has the better headline: "It'll be All White On The Night." And as he acknowledges the spot was originally… Read more »
The lesson of Damian McBride’s memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party
In 2001 or so, I wrote a speech for Iain Duncan Smith that went well enough, and was drafted on… Read more »
Yes, it’s Mitchell Is Innocent Day on ConservativeHome
In my ToryDiary of earlier today about Andrew Mitchell case, and the failure of Operation Alice to report a year… Read more »
Andrew Mitchell should be returned to the Cabinet at the first opportunity
It is a year today since Operation Alice, the investigation by the Met into the Andrew Mitchell affair, was launched:… Read more »