ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
ToryDiary: Brown's Britain behaved less responsibly than Bush's America, says George Osborne Lord Strathclyde on Platform: There is no prospect of 42 days passing the House of Lords today Cllr Brian Coleman on Local government: Removing road humps has saved...
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Lord Strathclyde leads the Conservatives in the Upper House. We are told that spinning is dead, yet these last few days we’ve seen the doctors hard at work on the question of 42-day detention in what was once the freest...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Congratulations and good luck to Lord Hunt of Wirral - David Hunt - who has been appointed as Tory spokesman on Business, Enterprise and Regulation in the House of Lords. It's not the first time Lord Hunt has accepted a...
David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The joys of the mobile age......ambitious MPs and peers no longer have to wait by their phones for a call from Number 10 at reshuffle time. The leader of the Lords, Lady Ashton, was having lunch with her Tory opposite number when the call came. Lord Strathclyde said: "It is a post that I think surprised her almost as much as me, since on Friday I was having lunch with her when the Prime Minister rang...
snowflake5 (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Reading Political Hack's piece about Caroline Spelman's misuse of taxpayers money, I fell to wondering why she felt she had to abuse her position. Because she's not poor. According to the News of the World, she's worth £1.5million. So why the desire to filch money from the public purse? The NOTW article is interesting in other ways too. They point out that 19 of 29 of the Conservative shadow
Politics Wales (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
The that the richest cabinet since the 19th century would be elected if the Tories came to power:IT'LL be TOFF at the top if the Tories get into power—as NINETEEN of the29 Shadow Cabinet members are MILLIONAIRES, we can reveal. And with Labour's disastrous by-election result last week, Britain couldbe on the way to its wealthiest government since the mid-19th century whenthe aristocracy relinquished...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
ToryDiary: Cameron to unveil economic recovery plan Local government: Swindon Tories prepare to be the first council to pull the plug on speed cameras Patrick Cusworth on Platform calls for William Hague to press the US to stop the "torture"...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
DAVID Cameron was forced last night to defend a Tory peer who used racist language in the House of Lords.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
David Cameron has stood by a Conservative peer who used the phrase "nigger in the woodpile" during a Parliamentary debate.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
BRITAIN last night effectively ratified the EU's Lisbon Treaty, despite the decision by Irish voters to reject it .
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
THE Government admitted yesterday that the EU treaty may have been killed off by Ireland's �No' vote in last week's referendum.
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
The Conservative Party has a new star - or, more accurately, grassroots members have recognised that Eric Pickles is a star. David Cameron calls him the "big man" and he played leading roles in the victories of 1st May and at Crewe and Nantwich. Two months ago when Conservative members last ranked the shadow cabinet, the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ranked 10th but...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Business in the House is managed through "usual channels", by agreement between the government and the opposition parties. None of these want to engage in a high profile debate about the constitutional Lisbon treaty. Is it entirely a coincidence, therefore, that the major votes in the Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill were scheduled for the same day that the Lords were voting on...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
In 1997 Labour promised a referendum before Britain joined the Euro, it was a way of kicking the EU question off of the agenda and so maximising the Labour vote. Last night the Conservative peer, Lord Blackwell, tabled an amendment to prevent any "backsliding" on the Labour government's euro vote commitment. However Labour peers queued up to vote against the motion and it was defeated by 195 votes...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Last night Tory peer Lord Blackwell proposed a motion to make it law that a referendum is held on whether Britain joins the Euro. The motion was defeated by 195 votes to 135. Now this is a surprise seeing as Labour promised to hold a referendum on the Euro during their 1997 election campaign. Why would they vote against their own policy? As Lord Strathclyde said: there was "something very fishy" about...
