By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Here are the results of the Eastleigh by-election: Mike Thornton (Lib Dem) 13,342 (32.1%, -14.5%); Diane James (UKIP) 11,571 (27.8%, +24.2%); Maria Hutchings (Con) 10,559 (25.4%, -14.0%); John O'Farrell (Lab) 4,088 (9.8%, +0.2%) Grant Shapps, Tory Chairman, gave his reaction on Andrew Neil's by-election programme last night: If the […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Tuesday morning update: Kevin Foster is adopted for Torbay. *** It's time we updated readers on a recent set of seat selections in target constituencies: David Warburton has been selected for Somerton and Frome; Tony Cox for Newcastle-under-Lyme; Robert Loughenbury for Chorley; Michelle Donelan for Chippenham; Caroline Ansell for […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the final few days of the battle for Eastleigh there is a new spring in the step of the Tory campaign. The bookies still favour the Liberal Democrats for many good reasons but Maria Hutchings is far from defeated. 500 Tory activists descended on the Hampshire constituency on […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter ConHome's owner Lord Ashcroft has been in the news over the weekend. The Sunday Times reported (£) that the former party treasurer and close friend of William Hague "has told friends he has given enough money and is unwilling to devote further resources to securing an overall majority in […]
By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter I found it hard to believe at first, but Lord Ashcroft's research about the European Union not being the key factor in UKIP's support is proving to be correct. In the Eastleigh by-election on Thursday it is clear that they are going to do astonishingly well. Polls published today and […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter The figures are: Conservatives: 33 Liberal Democrats: 29 Labour: 13 UKIP: 22 This morning's Populus poll for the Times (£) found the following: Conservatives: 28 Liberal Democrats: 33 Labour: 11 UKIP: 21 Lord Ashcroft's poll a fortnight ago recorded: Conservatives: 34 Liberal Democrats: 31 Labour: 19 UKIP: 13 A […]
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By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Times (£) has published the third opinion poll of the Eastleigh by-election campaign and it will do nothing to correct the overwhelming media narrative that the Liberal Democrats are on course to keep the seat vacated by Chris Huhne. AIt puts the Lib Dems ahead by 5%. As […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I spent a day in Eastleigh yesterday, canvassing and delivering leaflets. Contrary to what you may have read on Twitter and in some newspapers the Tory campaign is very well supported. We are getting our leaflets out, the leaflets carry targeted messages for different parts of the constituency and […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. @i-images Andrew Mitchell's piece in today's Financial Times about Britain and the Europe will do nothing to quell rumours that David Cameron will appoint him as an EU Commissioner: I suspect that the former International Development Secretary wrote it with a twinkle in his eye. But either way, the […]
Martin Callanan MEP is Chairman of the European Conservatives. This is his monthly letter to ConHome readers. Follow the ECR Group on Twitter. “The deal is done,” came the tweet from European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. The seven-year budget had been agreed. For the first time in EU history there was a cut; the religion […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter What larks in Eastleigh! As various Tory MPs have tweeted in identikit fashion, the Lib Dem candidate has today ‘fessed up to voting for 5,000 new homes to be built on previously undeveloped green space – and this despite campaign literature which warns that “countryside spaces between our towns and […]
By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter Dr Rachel Frosh has been removed the Conservative Party candidates list and forced to resign as the Deputy Police and Crime Comissioner in Hertfordshire. The reason was that she used her Twitter account to retweet message with this graphic: It is certainly provocative. Many socialists will have found it uncomfortable […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Eighteen months or so ago, I asked on this site why pro-EU Conservatives are so shy of making that case? That question may now become redundant – at least as far as a new group of Tory MPs is concerned. Laura Sandys speaks for a newly-formed European Mainstream Group […]
by Paul Goodman Eighteen months or so ago, I asked on this site why pro-Eu Conservatives are so shy of making that case? That question may now become redundant – at least as far as a new group of Tory MPs is concerned. Laura Sandys speaks for a newly-formed European Mainstream Group in the film […]