The AKP’s status in ACRE, the Tory international alliance, was in doubt – but it survived a vote with Conservative backing.
Contrast with the fate of the Lib Dems: on the right our party system has done its job, but on the left it’s struggling.
Many parliamentarians feel that CCHQ has hung them out to dry by being slow to take responsibility for its errors.
The MP for Enfield Southgate helped to sink tax credit and Sunday Trading changes – and now has eye on the Government’s housing benefit plans for young people.
They’ve fumbled a strong unionist position into a serious setback. Let it at least provoke a long-overdue shake-up in capital-U Unionist thinking.
The by-election winner becomes the first Conservative to represent the area since 1935.
When was the last time you answered your landline? Actually, when was the last time you talked to anyone on the phone at all – out of preference?
The Party Chairman says “all seats” are under consideration for targeting.
Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.
When a self-replicating clique becomes dominant – be it of councillors, evangelicals, po-faced harridans or freemasons – there is trouble ahead.
Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.
The loss of Feldman, the hopelessness of Corbyn and Eurosceptic donor fatigue all play their part. CCHQ says it has a plan to get the money rolling in again.
The Article 50 Bill starts its passage through the Commons today – uniting the Conservative Party and throwing Labour into disarray.
The days are long gone when union leaders could do a good job for their members, while funding and influencing a political party.
Of course we battle over our competing visions of Britain. But on something this important we should co-operate.