Our survey reveals a strong demand for the right to elect Board members and the Party Chairman.
If you haven’t yet received your vote, there is still time and opportunity to secure it.
ConservativeHome was among the first to raise the issue – now the Party Board is weighing up a crucial decision.
Frankly, we need to get through all this without a split. Resources neutrality is essential to that end.
The troubled VoteSource database strikes again as CCHQ asks activists to manually check membership lists.
Three-quarters of the former believe that the latter should not be entitled to vote in the coming Party leadership election.
Should members and registered supporters have the same rights? What about city and county federations? Should the Party Chairman be elected? All this and much more.
The key to successful grassroots politics is the local touch: remote and sprawling party organisations are a big step in the wrong direction.
The Kennedy plan set out on this site could work. It would further professionalise our campaigning, while enhancing the local democracy that our Party depends on.
The mayoral selection process has produced new heights of bureaucratic excess, to the extent that party officers cannot even locate their colleagues in other associations.
Over two years in CCHQ I saw how a broken system hampers campaigning and alienates supporters. This must be stopped.
The capital needs more than a business-bashing agitator for the Opposition or a City Hall that will sacrifice economic growth on the altar of dogma.
Plus: Let’s have three bands of income tax. Red sky at night, my Shepherds delight. And: see you in Finchley tomorrow for my Conservative Mayoral Candidate Hustings.
Meet the two candidates hoping to succeed Emma Pidding in the Conservative Party’s most senior voluntary position.
Shift our organisation to an interest-based model; lower financial barriers to membership; foster genuine debate; and increase competition and rewards for young volunteers.