David Cameron looked admirably chastened. Michael Gove behaved like an octogenarian who is taking great care to avoid nasty accidents.
A review of “A Strange Romance” – Daisy Hay’s account of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary-Anne Disraeli.
Elevating FPTP to the status of a Tory principle would be a historical, and perhaps also a historic, mistake.
As it happens, I live only a few hundred yards from his house.
The Mayor’s book about Britain’s great Prime Minister has the valuable effect of making us look again at this titanic figure – Churchill, that is.
The Commons came together in defence of the Union, but John Redwood wanted to know who speaks for England.
While new women smiled on the Treasury Bench, scattered about the Chamber were ex-ministers who imagined they could afford to think for themselves.
This one-time “British Robespierre”, who then dedicated himself to preserving the United Kingdom, died a century ago today.
Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.
The Conservative Party has flung every minister, MP, candidate, activist and aristocrat it can lay its hands on into this fight.
My party seeks to build an economy which works for the many, not for the few.
The man in charge of home affairs policy for the ’22 says that Macmillan and Macleod are his inspiration.
Honoured today as a forerunner of social justice conservatism, the Tory battler against slavery was a more complex figure.