His task during this campaign and after is to persuade the people that the Tories stand for something better than business as usual.
Playing up Nicola Sturgeon to undermine Ed Miliband is a tempting game to play – my enemy’s enemy is my friend – but it is ill-judged, and is playing with fire.
The Defence Secretary argues that the Labour leader would be in thrall to Scottish nationalists who would strip Britain of its nuclear deterrent.
Ed Miliband’s party is only the sixth least popular choice as a potential Conservative coalition partner. Read all about it.
Take it all with a pinch of salt. Do your best and, cometh the hour, “treat those two imposters just the same”.
It’s very tight indeed in these constituencies, but Ed Miliband’s party has the edge in these local campaigns on the basis of this evidence.
The Scottish leaders’ debate: they clash on the economy.
…Because only a third of Party member respondents expect the Conservatives to win over 300 seats.
And over two in five think he should not.
To create work for all who want it, and a better life for our children and security for families. We can only do this with business.
Through saving our economy and protecting the public finances the Conservatives have ensured increased funding and have saved the NHS as we know it today.
Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?
It would be more constraining, unfamiliar and undoubtedly messy. But it need not be as bad as some fear.
We Conservatives should instinctively support the passing of fewer Acts of Parliament and better, more extensive scrutiny of legislation.
We will increase the defence budget by more than inflation; not reduce the size of the regular armed forces further, and replace the four existing Vanguard submarines.