Plus: The SNP take over a bar, a rumpus at Women to Win, no booze at Steve Hilton’s book launch…and from Russia with Love to Soames.
Cameron should trade off giving his Ministers the freedom to campaign for a No vote against his Party easing the push for a fundamental renegotiation.
So we are back at the Palace of Varieties with far more MPs than expected – and relatively few casualties.
We tally up the changes in seats as the results come in.
In 1992, the Party won. Then it fell apart. After his own awesome comeback yesterday, Cameron will ponder the lessons of history.
The smoother the co-operation between Number 10 and the ’22 is if such a plan is put, the more likely it is to pass.
Our final pre-election version – complete with the 30 new Tory candidates most likely to make it to the Commons.
For the first time ever, the race to increase ethnic minority representation is neck-and-neck between the two main parties.
The day-in-day-out reporting of the 1975 leadership contest stressed her dogmatism – and the risks for the Party should its MPs be foolhardy enough to vote for her.
It tells this site that “the wider party would have to be involved”.
The objectionable nickname aside, what has become of the 67 female candidates tipped for great things in 2009?
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.
It only takes nine rebel Conservative MPs to defeat the Government. If that became a regular occurrence, voters would not forgive us.