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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Political Scrapbook has unearthed a 2000 Times op-ed in which Michael Gove, then a columnist at the newspaper, slams the newly ennobled Lord Ashcroft as a "comdeian" who puts the "enitre Tory electoral…
By Peter Barnard David Cameron was being disingenuous in the Conservative poster "I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS." Labour has already announced, on the public record in Pre-Budget Report 2009 (Table B13) that it also intends to cut "the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Right wing Tory MEP Daniel Hannan is to launch a British equivalent of the tea party movement in America this Saturday at a rally in Brighton, to campaign against the taxes that pay for our schools, hospitals…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In this week's issue of the Spectator, James Forsyth tells the fascinating tale of a recent high-level Tory crisis meeting in Notting Hill, in which the prominent attitude was "despair" and in which a…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Alistair Darling claims Number 10 unleashed "forces of hell" on him after he spoke out about the potential depths of the recession in 2008. * The PM has said he never instructed Number 10 staff to brief…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Below the topline figures from this weekend's ComRes poll, which showed the gap between Labour and the Tories had fallen to 8 points, there is some interesting and important new insight into the voting…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Patron of National Bullying Helpline resigns over Mrs Pratt's behaviour, damning speaking out as "wholly inappropriate". BullyingUK is "horrified" by NBH's "confidentiality breach". The head of the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 New analysis by Politics Home shows that David Cameron's favourability lead over Gordon Brown has halved over the last 6 months since conference season; that the image of the Conservative Party has also…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A new Tory document, released tonight and with a Foreword by David Cameron, is billed as "a comprehensive assessment of the level of inequality under this Labour government". It's another attempt to paint…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Gordon Brown's interview with Piers Morgan tonight was hyped and hyped and hyped again. Piers Morgan announced at the beginning of the show that the PM was "about to face the biggest challenge of his career"…
By Andrew Hobson With 91 Labour MPs so far announcing their retirement at the forthcoming election, regional officials and CLP officers have been kept busy with selection contests. The recent round has thrown up a number of interesting…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Tim Montgomerie of ConHome has tweeted that "he tends to agree" with Jim Pickard at the FT, who wrote that John Healey "was right" to say what he did and that this was not a Lamont moment. Yesterday…
