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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Lights, camera, action! DD is on the comeback trail and he's celebrating news of the demise of 42-days without detention. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh managed to grab the great man's attention for just long enough for Davis to say how vindicated he is, tickled even, at today's unofficial clear signal that he was right all along. "I certainly feel vindicated....
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Coventry Green Voice (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
David Cameron spoke for 65 minutes at conference, but he didn’t mention his 2005 idea of a "carbon audit office" -- a watchdog for a new statutory framework with specific year-by-year requirements for carbon cuts. In his leadership contest with David Davis, he said such an office would perform a role in checking emissions similar to the Monetary Policy Committee in monitoring and forecasting inflation....
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RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I was expecting rather more of the hooray antics at Tory conference (writes R Monkey Esq. from Birmingham New Street Station) but the mood was generally quite muted. Between the credit crisis and a level of discipline worthy of the US Marine Core, no-one was seeking headlines. Even David Davis was heard saying, “I’m behaving [...]
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
I have copious notes on speeches at the Friends of Israel bash, a climate change sceptics bun fight, an interview with David Davis and something else for which the detail eludes me. Any of those appeal?
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Nigel Fletcher in Opposition (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A popular feature of this conference has been the 'Freedom zone' round the back of the conference centre, which bills itself as a mini-conference with fringe events on the theme of civil liberties. Speakers have included David Davis, John Redwood and Bloggers Iain Dale, Guido Fawkes and Dizzy. It's what some Tories would call 'sound'- a festival of anti-political correctness. Tonight's event
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
What scaremongering twaddle from Beaconsfield Conservative Dominic Grieve today. Giving David Davis a bloody good run for his money in the loony shadow Home Secretary stakes. Although, thanks to nonsense like this, feeding the random reactionary scare memes, there is some fear in the community about prosecution over having a go at stopping a crime, this is utterly disproportionate to a tiny number...
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Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
dizzy has been enduring Iain Dale and David Davis 'having a chat' , which must have been terminally exciting. One interesting snippet saved for the end is: When asked if he would have done anything differently, Davis said that if he had been leader he would "not let my shadow Home Secretary resign" Well, perhaps you wouldn't, David, but then perhaps your Home Secretary wouldn't have been so disloyal...
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
There's something festering inside David Davis and I'm not talking about the four shredded wheat he had for breakfast. Following on from his pledge at the weekend to take on Cameron and Osborne over Tory economic policy, the former Shadow Home Secretary has told a packed Tory fringe meeting that had he been Tory leader he would not have "let my shadow Home Secretary resign." Miaow!
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The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
David Davis maintains that he resigned simply in order to highlight the freedom issue; however, he also admits that it was because he could see no other way of highlighting this without ruining his career. Davis maintains that there was no bust-up between him and Cameron. He can remember when Howard was booed for condemning ID cards; Davis was then cheered for speaking against them. Iain asks whether...
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Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Am currently watching Iain Dale interview David Davis in the Freedom Zone about his civil liberties campaign. He's just come on to the issue of Britishness, citing Gordon Brown's obsession with it and how to define it. He noted that once, the directory Liberty, Shami Chakrabati, thought that for Gordon Brown the campaign would have to be called "Make Liberty History". Davis also said that he has never...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
I've got a further three fringes today (listed below). I am sure they will all have a bit of spark, so if you're at the conference, do come along! David Davis in Conversation with Iain Dale 12.30-2pm Austin Court Hotel, 80 Cambridge Street Freedom Zone & Total Politics A half hour conversation followed by audience Q & A Freedom & the Internet 2pm-3.30pm Austin Court Hotel Freedom Zone Chair: Iain Dale....
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Looks like Cuban Dave is ready for a fight . ' His intervention - the first since he returned to the backbenches - is likely to alarm David Cameron and George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, who have spent several years carefully crafting the party's economic policies. ' Related: David Davis and George Galloway - Strange bedfellows Davis for Freedom: A party within a party
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UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
We all thought that he was, as nobody had heard hide nor hair from the UK's most fearless defender of liberty and freedom since he gained his by-election victory back in early July this year. Like many others, we were initially taken in by Davis' Campaign for Freedom . However, it quickly became apparent that he was simply pulling a stunt; one, sadly, that worked beautifully in Haltemprice and Howden,...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Conservative Party has not yet developed the right economic and tax policy to deal with the impact of the worsening global economic situation former Tory frontbencher David Davis warns in an interview.
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Sadly while Iain Dale may have invented Blogging, he is certainly not the inventor of the term plastic poll card as he claimed yesterday, and again back in 2006 when he puts the date of this achievement as "way back in July" (2005) when preparing a speech with David Davis for the second reading of the iD Cards Bill. In fact Davis gave the speech in question on 28 June 2005 . I miss the magna carta...
