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June 17, 2013
David Cameron’s support for arming Syria’s rebel forces was undermined on Monday when Boris Johnson, London mayor, said such...
June 14, 2013
Michael Hintze, the hedge fund boss and Conservative party donor, has been created a knight in the Queen’s birthday honours...
June 13, 2013
Conservative eurosceptics will lead their party into committing “political suicide” if they refuse to accept any form of...
June 13, 2013
Immigrant households in the UK not only, on average, contribute more in tax revenues than they receive in benefits but also...
June 12, 2013
As Michael Gove stood at the dispatch box presenting his overhaul of GCSEs to parliament, he told MPs it was part of his...
June 10, 2013
Tim Yeo has stepped down from chairing the Commons energy committee as a Parliamentary watchdog examines accusations of...
June 10, 2013
David Cameron on Monday confronted critics in his party who want to withdraw from the EU and close Britain’s borders,...
June 9, 2013
Such is the decline of the once-mighty Conservative party in Scotland that it only laid out 240 seats for members attending...
June 7, 2013
By Jim Pickard and Elizabeth Rigby John Mills, the Labour donor whose “tax-efficient” gift threatened to overshadow the...
June 7, 2013
David Cameron is now less popular than the Conservative party for the first time since he assumed its leadership seven years...
June 6, 2013
Ed Miliband has been accused of hypocrisy after campaigning against aggressive tax avoidance even as the Labour party was...
June 2, 2013
David Cameron will bring forward stalled plans for a register of lobbyists and the power for constituents to recall errant...
May 31, 2013
Patrick Mercer, a one-time Tory frontbencher, has resigned the party whip and announced he will step down as an MP in 2015...
May 28, 2013
David Cameron faces tough decisions on Europe – most with lasting implications for Conservative party unity and all with...
May 28, 2013
Since the 2010 general election the three main UK political parties have received £1.14m in kind from three of the biggest...
May 26, 2013
David Cameron has a year to prove his brand of Conservatism can work, a senior Conservative warned on Sunday as misgivings...
May 24, 2013
The depiction by a leading Tory of his own party activists as swivel-eyed loons left me with conflicting emotions. I laughed...
May 24, 2013
Past performance, as every investor knows, is no guarantee of future success. For 90 years HMV was a leading music seller in...
May 23, 2013
David Cameron set off for Brussels on Wednesday the hunted leader of a divided party, battered by a row over his support for...
May 23, 2013
Net migration has fallen to its lowest level for a decade, driven by a decline in the number of overseas students which...
May 22, 2013
David Cameron fought back against rebellion in his party on Wednesday, declaring he was “proud” of gay marriage legislation...
May 21, 2013
MPs on Tuesday voted to legalise gay marriage after two days of fraught debate that has divided the Conservative party and...
May 21, 2013
Leaders come and go, but political parties are for ever – or what seems like it anyway. What they stand for is the result of...
May 21, 2013
When Bob Woollard presented a letter to Downing Street on Sunday from 34 Tory activists opposed to gay marriage it was a...
May 20, 2013
Pulled apart over Europe, battered by parliamentary rebellions, sinking in the opinion polls: the comparisons are...
May 20, 2013
David Cameron faces another bruising rebellion from his own party as his MPs line up to vote on Tuesday night against...
May 20, 2013
Conservative party staff dawdling in front of their computers are admonished by a screensaver that counts down the minutes...
May 19, 2013
David Cameron’s control over his party will come under renewed pressure on Monday as scores of Tory MPs try to wreck his...
May 19, 2013
Dozens of Conservative MPs in the southeast of England could see shale gas exploitation taking place in their constituencies...
May 19, 2013
David Cameron, UK prime minister, has been accused of “losing control” of his Conservative party, amid growing acrimony over...
May 17, 2013
David Cameron retreated to Chequers on Friday after another week of Conservative chaos over Europe – amid signs that his...
May 17, 2013
Philip Hammond was rebuked by Downing Street on Friday over his criticism of gay marriage, amid concern that the defence...
May 16, 2013
The Conservatives’ “self-indulgent civil war” over Europe is causing “serious damage” to the economy, Vince Cable said on...
May 16, 2013
Britain's future in the EU Prime Minister David Cameron thought that his promise to renegotiate the terms of Britain's...
May 15, 2013
David Cameron has defied calls for Downing Street to publish a list of Lynton Crosby’s clients amid concerns about the Tory...
May 13, 2013
Touchingly, they really believed it would work. When David Cameron pledged a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU...
May 13, 2013
David Cameron delivered a sobering lecture to the Tory conference in 2006 on why the party kept losing elections. “Instead...
May 7, 2013
Membership of the UK Independence party has jumped by more than half in the past year as thousands of Tory grassroots...
May 2, 2013
David Cameron is to sharpen his Conservative credentials in the wake of an expected local election drubbing, moving to...
May 1, 2013
David Cameron is preparing for a “very difficult few days” amid fears in Downing Street that Conservative losses in...