I sometimes get the impression that the party has lost all faith in being able to convince any voter of anything
Dizzy takes the view that Cameron can show his might versus his own party (again…. remember his and Osborne’s attacks on libertarians within the party) by supporting all-woman shortlists.
I am not convinced that Cameron shows [...]

I can’t be the only person to have flinched at the awful Tony Blair style language in James Purnell’s resignation letter.
I owe it to our party to say what I believe no matter how hard that may be. I now believe your continued leadership makes a Conservative victory more, not less likely.
He could have settled [...]

I’ve just read the full text of the speech that David Cameron gave on Tuesday. I like it. It is in fact very good indeed: libertarian and decentralizing in its tone, punchy in its delivery.
But in Britain today a growing culture of rule-following, box-ticking and central prescription robs people of the chance to [...]

Following Alan Johnson’s call for electoral reform so that it can become even harder to get rid of any lazy and corrupt MPs, David Cameron has now come up with his own suggestions for constitutional reform. I like his overtures towards political decentralization, although I am less keen on the idea of fixed [...]