The image above appears in a number of newspapers, including the Mail on Sunday. According to the Independent on Sunday, "vans showing the "tax bombshell" poster will drive around busy shopping areas in central London." It continues: "200,000 leaflets warning that government borrowing will soar to £100bn by 2010 will be handed out at commuter […]
The battlelines for the political debate over the coming year will be drawn on Monday when Alistair Darling delivers his pre-budget report. Bookies have cut the odds on a 2009 general election over the last 24 hours, although I am still of the view that a snap contest is highly unlikely – and that is […]
Ruth Kelly has issued an overnight apology for spending part of her parliamentary communications allowance on a constituency newsletter that, in clear breaches of guidance, boasts of Labour Government achievements. The guidelines state that "no party political or campaigning material is allowable in any part of a publication funded, in whole or in part, from […]
David Cameron will give a speech tomorrow in his constituency to mark the day that should have been a General Election. Ben Brogan also has this poster which the Tories have launched to mark the non-election. Clever. It follows yesterday’s All Trick, No Treat poster stunt. 11pm: A number of commenters below – Chad Noble […]
If there is an autumn election few expect the Tories can win a majority. The party should gain a handful of seats from the LibDems – particularly because David Cameron’s ‘Waitrose strategy’ has worked reasonably well in the south – but the polls suggest that the party is approximately 10% below what it needs for […]
Over the next few days and during the Labour conference, Tory activists will be distributing a hard-hitting newspaper in target seats. All target seats were invited to take the newspaper and approximately seventy accepted the offer. The main themes of the newspaper are crime and the NHS – the balanced themes which saw Tory ratings […]
These pledges are featured in the Conservative party’s online advertising campaign and they will be the core commitments for any autumn election campaign: It’s time to fight the closure of A&E and maternity units across the country. It’s time to support married couples in the tax system and to give all parents the right to […]
The Conservative Party has launched a series of online ads today. Nine different ads will appear over the next five days on sites including Facebook, Lycos and national newspaper websites. The nine themes will be: Teaching by ability Fighting the closure of A&E and maternity units Referendum on EU constitution Tougher sentencing, more police, end […]
A report from Joe Murphy in today’s London Evening Standard notes that a different colour Tory logo appeared behind William Hague at yesterday’s launch of the EU Treaty in plain English. Mr Murphy reports that the blue was reminiscent of one of Margaret Thatcher’s famous blue outfits. A party official confirmed that the colour of […]
This Freddie Starr-style leaflet will be distributed to voters at train and tube stations this morning by Tory activists. The party wants to exploit voter anger at Gordon Brown’s pensions raid – particularly amongst older voters (always the most likely to vote). By deploying these leaflets the Tories will also be able to attach Brown […]
CCHQ has just confirmed a reader’s tip-off that the Conservative Party is currently market-testing an alternative to the traditional blue Tory rosette. Under consideration is a blue and green ribbon in the same shape and style that people wear on their lapel to highlight AIDS or breast cancer, for example. Canvassers would be absolutely free […]
18 Doughty Street’s campaign video on tax has just gone online and is downloadable here. I hope you consider it interesting enough to forward to your friends and colleagues. Newsnight previewed the video last night and interviewed Tim about the concept. Tim also expanded on the idea in The Times today. This morning the TaxPayers’ […]
The new Tory logo (top) cost £40,000 to develop according to today’s Times (although the scribble looks much better in colour than what we saw yesterday). The idea for the oak logo and the actual design you see on the left originally came from Conservative Home visitors – earlier in the summer – and all […]
Well, it’s true. The logo that appeared on Iain Dale’s blog this morning is going to be the new Tory logo. Two reactions: Iain scanned the image from his conference pass – which arrived in this morning’s post… a full seven days before the Party had officially scheduled the launch of the logo… in Leeds […]
Today sees the latest publication from the Cornerstone Group of socially conservative Tory MPs (the membership of which now equals about forty). Previous publication topics have included higher education and exiting the EPP. David Burrowes is the author of ‘Pick ’em local and Pick ’em early’ – a timely contribution to the debate on candidate […]