ToryDiary

There are 400,000 more people in work today than there were a year ago – and inroads are being made into long-term and youth unemployment.

One of the cruellest illusions of collectivism, T.E.Utley once pointed out, is that compassion can be delegated to the state.

Labour are running out of excuses for their failure of trapping people on welfare.

We suffer today from the short-termist decisions of Tories decades ago. How will we leave a better political inheritance?

You can believe we’re Better Together and that we’d be Better Off Out – but pushing the former too hard will undermine the latter.

Localism is a good principle and the Conservative Party should apply to itself as well as the nation.

A story from the Birmingham Post illustrates what he’s up to.

At present, UKIP poses more of a threat to the Conservatives than Labour.

Why were a hard-working candidate and activists given such an unambitious local council message to sell?

If the review’s claim on single market access is representative of the rest of it, it will be even worse than expected.

There must be no return to Brownite splurges – we must have the discipline to take care of people’s hard-earned taxes.

This session will have gratified those who look for a more sombre tone from our legislators.

A measure that until recently seemed intolerable now looks likely to be adopted within a few years.

Scientists have prejudices too

The details may be obscure, but their drift is clear: policy is being driven back towards what he wanted in the first place.