Conservative party
The Tories are still anxious to reach out. And that’s a very good sign
Post-election party conferences usually follow a standard pattern. The winning party slaps itself on the back while the losers fret…
She could be a contender
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan thinks a woman should run to be the next Tory leader
Barometer
It’s their party Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest with 60% of the vote among four candidates in the…
Boris’s waiting game
While the Labour party rakes over its past in an effort to find a policy for its future, the commentators…
Flashmob rule
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
If Corbyn wins, he could split the Tories too
‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…
Osborne rules
The Chancellor has Westminster in his grip
Why MPs can’t switch off this summer
There are few quicker ways to annoy an MP than to suggest that they are on holiday when the House…
Cameron’s EU rollercoaster
We have just had a very insular general election campaign, but the mood at Westminster is now determined by news…
Northern exposure
George Osborne on his love affair with Greater Manchester, and his party’s need for ‘a bit of the Heseltine’
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words ‘Vote Mark…
Left in the lurch
Thanks to globalisation, ‘progressive’ politicians have nowhere to turn
Unintelligent design
Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…
A ladder for everyone
Justine Greening says that the Conservatives will not win big until they really home in on social mobility
Farage the moderniser
There are many words that you might associate with Nigel Farage, but moderniser probably isn’t one. Yet the Ukip leader…
Ukip isn’t a national party. It’s a Tory sickness
It can happen that something ought to feel wrong yet somehow doesn’t; and you wonder whether this means that in…
Labour’s fifth column
David Cameron’s government continues to subsidise its critics
Welfare wars
George Osborne is refreshingly uninterested in his public image, believing that he will be judged by the success (or otherwise)…
How the Tories can win the next election
The mood was grim when David Cameron, George Osborne and their advisers convened for a crunch meeting on 4 February…
