Eight per cent of Party members would join a new Metropolitan Party
And 84 per cent would not.
From a ConHome blog to your door mat: Ben Gummer’s tax statements become reality
The idea has gone from an article on this site to government policy – and this week it will land on 24 million doormats.
More Party members believe students should be removed from immigration targets than retained
And only two in five of these respondents plumped for an end to EU free movement or exit.
We cannot – must not – rely on Labour’s problems to hand us re-election
Tories hope Red Ed, the SNP and the Greens will grant us victory in 2015. Labour hope UKIP will do the same for them. It’s an uninspiring capitulation.
A big cut in our membership sub must be part of Cameron’s EU renegotiation
The gross payment for 2013 was £19.4bn
The Greens should be included in the TV election debates
P.S: They’re unlikely to happen at all, of course.
Grayling to end the “cautions culture”
Chris Grayling is taking a strong stand on the side of the victims against their tormentors.
Scotland. Labour’s troubles. A Conservative opportunity?
Perhaps. But it’s hard to see where a significant Tory breakthrough is going to come from in time for next May.
The mind-bending politics of drugs
Public and media opinion have shifted while Westminster’s stance on the failing War on Drugs remains the same. How long will the mismatch last?
Cummings. Whitehall in four words – “Everything will be wrong”
“Every process described as ‘cross-Whitehall’ will be a fiasco – especially if it is being coordinated by Number Ten.”
Osborne has not given up on deficit reduction
Although Cameron and the Chancellor expected the deficit to be far smaller by now, they still have a credible strategy for dealing with it.
Immigration policy. How restrictive? An amnesty for illegals or not? Defy the EU? Take our monthly survey
Among its other questions: would you vote for the Metropolitan Party? And what about that Tory-UKIP Pact?
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: no sign of magnanimity from Cameron or Miliband as they bicker about immigration
Neither man saw anything to be gained from expressing a more generous patriotism. Nick Clegg looked desperate, but Michael Gove seemed perky.
The Conservative Party becomes a broad coalition again – or it dies
The text of my speech from yesterday evening’s debate on the future of the centre-right with Matthew Parris.
Railways. What the North needs is local plans, better trains and faster journeys – quickly
Since we don’t need HS2, at least on its present route, do we really need HS3?