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A little more is emerging about David Cameron's commitment
to reducing social inequality, should his Conservative Party be elected to
power this year. Yet his proposals, spelled out to the independent think tank Demos yesterday, seem incompatible...
We hadn't heard much about marriage from the Tories until
David Cameron was interviewed by our old friends at the Daily Mail this week
and accused Labour of being "pathologically" opposed to supporting the institution.
Anyone would think...
A perturbing hint on how next year's general election
campaign might pan out emerged this week when David Cameron attempted to
outsmart Gordon Brown on the funding of two Islamic schools. Read More...
David Cameron has been turning his thoughts this week to
poverty - and also to the voluntary sector which he sees as key to reducing it. Read More...
It is Broken Britain week at Conservative Party HQ, with
shadow home secretary Chris Grayling attempting to remind us how bad things
have become. And he mentioned political correctness only once. Read More...
Do you know any Tory social workers? Conservative Party chair Eric
Pickles says he does and they are lining up to become MPs after the next general
election. Read More...
Care workers on the minimum wage who are toasting their not
overly generous 7p an hour pay rise should put down their glasses now. Read More...
If the Conservatives win the next general election, it will
mean the end of the seemingly jinxed child database, ContactPoint. Read More...
The knee has jerked. This time, after two boys aged 10
and 11 were charged with attempted murder in Doncaster, it is Chris Grayling's
knee. Read More...
Conservative MPs are famous for having their epiphany moments: Michael Portillo's face at his constituency's general election count in 1997 signified his; former party leader William Hague, who fought the 2001 general election as the scourge of...
Any Labour voter who says they pay little attention to
opinion polls should perhaps revise that view on account of some disturbing
findings in The Independent this morning. Read More...
Amid the mass hysteria that surrounds the latest crisis of
capitalism and the uncertain futures of the moneybags who run our western
economies, it is easy to forget that there is one group of people who do badly
in both boom and bust. Read More...
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong everything. The shadow home
secretary Dominic Grieve chose the backdrop of the Conservative Party
conference in multicultural Birmingham to have a go at, yes, multiculturalism. Read More...
So she bottled it. Hours after details of her speech to the
TUC yesterday appeared in the national press, Labour's deputy leader, Harriet
Harman, avoided using the c-word that was long ago excised from her party's lexicon. Read More...
It's definitely catching. Last month Call-me-Dave Cameron
launched a verbal blitz on overweight people. Now his health spokesman Andrew
Lansley is at it . Read More...
In social care circles, Scandinavia, particularly the
Swedish bit, is often cited as the holy grail for professional practice. Few
would dispute that social care is well funded and well run in the Nordic
countries. Read More...
By Mike McNabb Time was when you could depend on a Conservative, often one with associations with Wolverhampton South West , to make some sweeping statement about race. Read More...