He would find it hard to sell a second Lib/Con coalition to his party…or to serve in a Lib/Lab coalition as Deputy Prime Minister.
A mixed economy, an internationalist country, live and let live – the ideals I’d like to see it stand for.
Plus: Shapps will be Tory Chairman until the election. The Church of England is a left-wing sect. Philomena. Current Affairs. And: Pamela Parker, In Memoriam.
Andrew Neil cites an article by Umanna’s former researcher – and asks if he also rewrote the Shadow Business Secretary’s Wikpedia entry.
Even Miliband supporters are starting to fret about his shrinking advantage.
Sajid Javid, Esther McVey. Nicky Morgan. Greg Hands – it’s turning out much as predicted. Women, Blue Collar Tories and Friends of George (not necessarily in that order).
When anyone describes themselves as being ‘neither rightwing nor leftwing’, what they usually mean is that they are either rightwing or leftwing, but they’d rather not be associated with certain other rightwingers/leftwingers. In other words, what we have here is an exercise in nose-holding – and no one does it better than the Economist: “Some […]
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The hook for the discussion was this morning's Lord Ashcroft memo to Mr Crosby.
Watch the full thirty minute interview on BBC's iPlayer.
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Regular readers of ConHome will know that I made a conservative case for gay marriage some time ago and I repeated that case in much briefer form in the video for the Out4Marriage campaign, pasted below. A few observations about how the campaign is progressing: I'm fully aware that […]
Such an exercise would feed the fiction that economic choices can be removed from political debate.