LibDem caption competition
This PA photo was taken at yesterday’s LibDem hustings meeting. For a good insight into the troubled nature of Mark… Read more »
ICM poll gives Tories 4% advantage
An ICM poll for today’s News of the World gives David Cameron’s Conservative Party a 4% lead over Labour. Perhaps… Read more »
UKIP prepare to attack Tories from libertarian right
The extent to which Britain’s economy is being ‘Europeanised’ by Gordon Brown is revealed in today’s Business: "Britain’s tax burden… Read more »
GB’s GB speech replaces prudence with patriotism
If David Cameron is moving his tanks on to the Labour turf of social and international justice Gordon Brown is… Read more »
FT makes noxious attack on Cameron
Yesterday’s FT went too far in attacking the Tory leader. ‘What did it do?’ you ask. Attack his abandonment of… Read more »
International conservatives reject Cameron’s Kyoto environmentalism
This week has seen the first proper meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (APP). ConservativeHome will… Read more »
Greater progress (or more conservatism) is needed to save Cameron from a right-wing backlash
Peter Oborne, on his weekly Spectator perch, is in no doubt that David Cameron caused the fall of Charles Kennedy:… Read more »
The Adrian Mole generation
In an article for the New Statesman Martin Bright examines the up-and-coming generation of MPs – particularly Cameron, Clegg and… Read more »
Cameron announces ‘national and international security’ policy group
David Cameron has appointed Dame Pauline Neville-Jones to chair the party’s policy group on ‘national and international security’. The appointment… Read more »
Ming’s ‘David Davis moment’ opens door to Chris Huhne MP and other pretenders
A leader in The Telegraph described Sir Menzies Campbell’s PMQs performance as "sorry". The Times called him "Ming the Massacred". … Read more »
Lansley and Cameron differ on smoking ban
John Reid and David Cameron will vote against a total ban on smoking in all pubs. Patricia Hewitt and Andrew… Read more »
Hain humiliated over abandonment of Northern Ireland Bill
The flat-footed Peter Hain used Boxing Day to make an attack on Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary David Lidington’s opposition to… Read more »
Campbell mocked at PMQs
Party leaders’ topics: Cameron on Iran researching uranium enrichment and meeting targets for tackling AIDS. Campbell on the "mess of… Read more »
Matthew d’Ancona: The LibDems need Clegg
Mark Oaten MP may have declared his bid for the LibDem leadership but today’s newspapers are doubtful that he has… Read more »
Labour 3% ahead in Times poll
A Populus poll for today’s Times suggests that David Cameron has improved the Tory standing but that he has yet… Read more »