The second Brown bounce is well and truly over according to opinion polls. The punters have turned more strongly against Gordon Brown than at any time since Tony Blair left Downing Street. Twittering yesterday I’ve gone on the record predicting a Tory majority of 100. And the news just keeps getting worse and worse for […]
Tim Montgomerie writes: It was not just that the speech was perfectly delivered it was a speech of enormous substance. My pick of its five profoundly important messages: The nation is at war and that without victory in countries like Afghanistan we are all more vulnerable: "In Afghanistan today, our armed forces are defending our […]
We billed it as the most important speech of the week. The tone was right. The delivery excellent. The council tax freeze very welcome. The message on the financial markets was appropriate. The speech had some good jokes. But George Osborne disappointed on the big issue of public spending restraint. This is what we wrote […]
We covered the speech yesterday but the FT is one of a number of newspapers to major in on David Cameron’s attempt to distance himself from "neoconservatism": “We should accept that we cannot impose democracy at the barrel of a gun,” he said in Islamabad. “We cannot drop democracy from 10,000 feet and we should […]
On his blog yesterday Nick Robinson wondered if this website would cheer a forthcoming promise by Nick Clegg to cut the overall burden of taxation. It’s true that we’re supply-siders on tax. We side with the TaxPayers’ Alliance in our fear that it would be disastrous for UK plc if we raise taxes during a […]
Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and David Cameron is due to make a major speech on foreign and security policy. In last week’s Telegraph, Rachel Sylvester wrote that the Tory leader "has done more work on this speech than any other he has made." Mr Cameron will make the speech at lunchtime tomorrow […]
Our esteemed Deputy PM may have been kept out of sight during last Thursday’s terror scare but he wasted no time attacking yesterday’s statement on homeland security from David Cameron. Mr Cameron’s intervention was "almost beyond belief" said Mr Prescott. Meanwhile Defence Secretary Des Browne has accused the Tory leader of opportunism. But, as today’s […]
Has everyone seen today’s open letter from ‘Muslim leaders’ to the Prime Minister? It appears in today’s Times and you can click on the graphic on the right to enlarge a scan of it. I found it deeply dispiriting and I am clearly not the only one. Quoted on BBC Online, LibDem Treasury spokesman Vince […]
Rumours are rife that David Cameron has over-ruled Francis Maude and ordered a six month postponement of the London Mayoral process if a big-hitter candidate does not come forward before today’s 5pm deadline. It was predictable and predicted that CCHQ’s rushed timetable would be unlikely to yield an adequate field of candidates. Unfortunately it’s only […]
As today’s homepage demonstrates it is not only Tony Blair – through his Middle East policy – who is causing unhappiness in his party. A number of leading Tories are also unhappy with the Conservative leadership’s willingness to criticise Israel. The critics of the Tory leadership feel that the world comnmunity has failed Israel over […]
A second set of emails to David Cameron – from his key parliamentary aide, Desmond Swayne MP – have leaked. The first were leaked to The Sunday Times and this morning’s Guardian has the second. Mr Swayne’s judgment in committing his thoughts to email has to be questioned but I am struck by the wisdom […]
The leader-writers at The Daily Telegraph sound very unhappy with David Cameron’s ‘hoodie’ speech (due to be given later today at the Centre for Social Justice): "How much more can we take? Barely a week goes by without David Cameron distancing himself from some elemental Tory belief. He is against grammar schools and tax cuts […]