Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Francis Maude has written a MY WEEK diary in the Sunday Times , telling of his week teaching English in Rwanda. He's out there with Andrew Mitchell and his group of 100 Tory activists, candidates and MPs. It brought back a lot of memories for me of my trip there last year. Andrew asked me to go with them again this time, and, believe me, I was tempted. It was one of the most memorable weeks of my life....
ID in the News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph: Sensitive data for more than four million people was lost by Government departments in the past year, on top of the high profile loss of child benefit records. Following the loss of details for 25 million child benefit claimants in November, Whitehall departments have begun including information on personal information [...]
Politics for People (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
At Questions for the Cabinet Office the other day , Tory Francis Maude tried to question the Government's support for co-operative schools, even quoting the Co-operative Party's manifesto to Ed Miliband. Mr. Francis Maude (Horsham) (Con): Does the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster agree with the party manifesto at the previous election that stated: "Public ownership does not have to mean top down...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
ConservativeHome now carries out its shadow cabinet surveys just once every two months. The latest ratings are below with most recent on the right and reflect the votes of 1,587 members. For new readers the percentages equal the number of...
Don't trip up (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Yesterday, the Financial Times reported that David Cameron is beginning to prepare his party for victory in 2010: Mr Cameron has approved a 45-minute session on “preparing for government” to start the crucial final day of his party’s conference in Birmingham. Oliver Letwin and Francis Maude, shadow cabinet members charged with overseeing the transition to Downing Street, will lead the platform session,...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Over at Coffee House, Daniel Korski looks at how Prime Minister Cameron might operate. He suggests that Mr Cameron might appoint a new Cabinet-level Secretary of State for Veteran Affairs (entirely consistent with the Cameron-Fox emphasis on these issues) and...
Politics Wales (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
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...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Credit where credit is due, the official Conservative Party reaction to the Ray Lewis affair appears to be rather more measured and sensible than that of some of the party’s online cheerleaders: Former minister Francis Maude will chair talks with senior party officials and one of Boris Johnson’s right hand men to learn lessons from the [...]
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Now this looks good . Apparently this week David Davis, in his big push, will be receiving visits from William Hague, Francis Maude, Liam Fox and Dominic Grieve... oh, and that fat bloke in the crumpled white suit. Still to vist, I hear, during this campaign, are high profile Shadow Cabinet Members Andrew Lansley, David Willetts, Eric Pickles, Theresa May, Alan Duncan, Francis Maude, David Mundell,...
