The Telegraph reports that the Tory leadership has been discussing an "elegant retreat" from its policy of matching Labour on spending: "The Tory leader, under mounting internal pressure to stretch his party’s lead over Labour, has conceded that it could be impossible to deliver tax cuts if he sticks to Gordon Brown’s commitments." The newspaper […]
24 hours after the Derek Conway report was published David Cameron took decisive action against the disgraced MP and he has kept up the momentum over the last week with welcome requirements for greater openness from his frontbenchers with regard to their taxpayer-funded expenses. It’s also fair to say that Mr Cameron, with considerable support […]
George Osborne was on Andrew Marr’s programme earlier and quite rightly noted that Britain is one of the least-well prepared nations for the looming worldwide slowdown. "Other Finance Ministers", to quote Mr Osborne, were discussing how to use their surpluses to help their economies negotiate the forthcoming turbulence. That wasn’t an option for Britain that […]
In a piece for today’s Telegraph Iain Martin urges David Cameron to be bolder. In The Spectator’s Politics column Fraser Nelson touches on similar themes – believing that Labour is exhausted and now is the time for the Tories to seize hold of the economic agenda. ‘How bold should the Tories be?’ is the big […]
Over the last few years Brown has presided over a massive growth in the size of the state. The low tax economy built by Margaret Thatcher and John Major is being undone. Britain plc is becoming less competitive. Parts of our nation are being ‘Soviet-ised’ as Labour ‘buys votes’ in its heartlands. Waste in the […]
There are two draft ‘media policy’ ideas that ConservativeHome would like to see fully embraced by the Tory leadership in 2008. One was released just before Christmas by Jeremy Hunt MP, our Culture spokesman. It’s an idea that will take a modest portion of the licence fee (perhaps 2%) – currently monopolised by the BBC […]
Just before Christmas ConservativeHome raised the issue of "unfair seats". On Monday’s Platform Conor Burns explained the problem in much more detail: "If Labour and the Conservatives had the same vote share [at the 2005 General Election] Labour would still have won 111 more seats. If the Conservatives had the same lead over Labour as […]