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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...
The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way
this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,
suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months
ahead. Read More...
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...
Cuts and welfare have dominated the news this week - and I
fear this is more than a coincidence. Read More...
The passengers are revolting. The Conservative MP David
Willetts is one of the commuters complaining about the number of announcements
on South West Trains' Havant to London rail line. 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...
My thanks to the blogsite Liberal Conspiracy for drawing my
attention to the predictable rant about teenage mothers made by, less
predictably, a Labour MP. Read More...
David Cameron is taking two weeks' compassionate leave after
the death of his six-year-old son, Ivan. It is the very least he will need. Read More...
Which planet is Iain Duncan Smith on? Abregado-rae ,
apparently. Read More...
There was a certain paradox in David Cameron's choice of
word that sits at the heart of his poverty battleplan. Read More...
As the UK's streets apparently descend into criminal chaos
with the street corners manned by paedophiles by day and snipers by night, it is
understandable that many residents fear the rise in the number of bail houses. Read More...
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...
Every now and then Labour comes up with scheme so
hare-brained that it insults the people the party purports to support and plays
into the hands of the Conservatives. Read More...
It has been a productive week for retro-Tories. Read More...
One of Gordon Brown's most irritating soundbites is his
habitual homage to "hard-working British families". You wouldn't catch Peter
Mandelson trotting that one out. 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...
You have to hand it to them; the Tories are in rampant mood as they make inroads into traditional Labour territory. Whether it concerns the emergence of an underclass (credit, Iain Duncan Smith ), families and inequality (credit, Michael Gove ) and our...
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...