The row over the Prime Minister’s remarks about local Associations has been mostly concocted. But the need for Party reform is real. We open a ConHome series.
He had charm, steel and ability, and might have led the Party were it not for his resignation and the circumstances that forced it.
In which I go campaigning with Grant Shapps’s brainchild, which has mobilised thousands of activists who would probably not have joined their local associations.
It is expected to plan for the long-term as well as the short. It isn’t doing this – so change is needed.
Plus: Well done, Chris Philp. An ankle bracelet for Ann Widdecombe? And: Go on, Lord Ashcroft. Publish that Cameron biography before the next election.
I’ve noticed in my constituency that, to parts of the community, I am a disruption to the local natural order.