7pm Andrew Lilico on CentreRight: On the nature of international law 5.15pm ToryDiary: James Purnell steals Chris Grayling’s ideas on welfare 2.30pm Peter Whittle on CentreRight: "The BBC reports today that two police officers have been attacked by a mob in south London when they asked a 15-year-old girl to pick up some litter she […]
5.15pm ToryDiary: Herbert supports first-past-the-post for elections to reformed Upper House 3pm Greg Hands MP on CentreRight: David Cameron should publish a book 1.45pm Seats and candidates: Tories focus on "Labour’s criminal record" in Glasgow East Noon Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Anti-Americanism won’t disappear with Barack Obama in the White House 11.30am LocalGovernment: LibDems turning […]
8.30pm Seats and candidates: Labour on course to hold Glasgow East 5.30pm ToryDiary: Hague calls for action outside of UN after China and Russia veto sanctions against Mugabe 10.30am ToryDiary: Boris is "pure party Viagra" Platform: Simon Clarke says eurosceptics have a lot to learn from the successful No campaign in Ireland ToryDiary: The influence […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and a former Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate. When Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia in March 2000, Tony Blair hailed him as “a moderniser, with a focused view of what he wants to achieve”. Eight years later, Britain harbours as political refugees those […]
John Moir, retired accountant and former financial director of Lloyds of London, argues that the Northern Rock rescue plan is the biggest financial rip-off in history. There are a lot of facts surrounding the Northern Rock disaster that are being withheld from the public, i.e, the taxpayer or, in its simplest term, “us”). These facts, […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. For sure there have been more spectacular banking crises than that which has affected Northern Rock in recent months. The phenomenon of a ‘run on the bank’ was almost commonplace in Victorian times. More recently the collapse of BCCI (1991) and Barings (1995) show that […]
David Gauke, MP for SW Hertfordshire, says Gordon Brown and his "Chancellor" Alistair Darling make for a dithering, directionless double-act that is damaging the country. The point of Alistair Darling was always supposed to be that he was a ‘save pair of hands’. He was seen as unobtrusive and inscrutable and had held a number […]
"Voice from the City" rebuffs Labour’s claim as economically competent in respect of Northern Rock, banking supervision and deposit insurance. Following the Conservative Party’s very successful conference, and the Thursday opinion polls, the spin in yesterday’s press was that Labour may delay the election so as to give it time to "undermine" the Conservative Party’s […]
That is just one of the explosive revelations in Robin Aitken’s new book – Can We Trust The BBC? Mr Aitken, a long-time BBC reporter, begins a serialisation of his book in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday with a recollection of how a BBC colleague reacted to the IRA’s 1984 attack on Mrs Thatcher and her […]
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, explains what the Party will be doing in Rwanda this year. Today, over 100 Conservative volunteers will come together in Rwanda for the start of Project Umubano 2008. They will continue the work started there by the Conservative Party last summer. The volunteers will focus […]