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Tory councillors insist Castle Hall School should stay open

Huddersfield Examiner - News (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009

TORY leaders have submitted their views to the man deciding the fate of Mirfield’s Castle Hall School.

Shocks of the day

Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

The defection of Mohammed Ashgar AM from Plaid Cymru to the Tories was first announced on the Welsh Liberal Democrat blog Freedom Central , before the Conservatives had even had time to announce it to the press. Sharing a floor with the Tories has its advantages and marching the defector to the Tory leader's office in full view of everybody was a dead giveaway, especially...

Labour insiders uneasy over 'class war' tactics against Tory leadership

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

TENSIONS have escalated within Labour about the "class war" tactics deployed against David Cameron, after the Tory leader branded them "spiteful".

• Labour insiders uneasy over 'class war' tactics against Tory leadership - News Scotsman

Labour insiders uneasy over 'class war' tactics against Tory leadership

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

TENSIONS have escalated within Labour about the "class war" tactics deployed against David Cameron, after the Tory leader branded them "spiteful".

UK polls predict Tory poll win

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

British Tory leader David Cameron remains on course to secure a Commons majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

• Cameron on track to win - News Scotsman

Tories: Labour abandoning 'class war'

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

Alistair Darling and Yvette Cooper say Conservative leader's plans, not his background, are their focus Two cabinet ministers today said David Cameron's Etonian education should not be held against him after the Conservative leader described attacks on his background as "spiteful". The chancellor, Alistair Darling, and the work and pensions secretary, Yvette Cooper, both said...

Quangos Quake but Tories Trim

Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

One of the least surprising pieces of news last week was that Caroline Spelman had abandoned the Tory Party’s pledge to abolish Regional Development Agencies: these will now ‘evolve’ into Local Enterprise Partnerships. Yet only a few short weeks ago, Lord Hanningfield was telling people that the Tories would ditch RDAs by Order in Council (legally [...]

In the eyes of voters, class divisions are not between Labour and Tory, but between politicians and everyone else

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

By Michael Merrick / @michaelmerrick The temptation must be excruciating, it really must. Imagine: you’re the leader of a political party that, historically at least, has been on the side of the workers, of the poorest in society, of the dispossessed and the downtrodden. And facing you, on the other side of the chamber, is the clean-cut Tory leader, with his easy aristocratic...

Tory leader is 'not embarrassed' by Eton, as shadow cabinet keeps quiet over schools

The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

David Cameron last night insisted that he was "not the slightest bit embarrassed" about attending Eton, amid claims that senior Tories are hiding details of their private school backgrounds in the face of growing attacks on "privilege" by the Labour Party.

Resurgent Brown ready to declare class war on Tories

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

... the most controversial class war weapon of all. The issue was inheritance tax (IHT), which the Tories plan to abolish for all but millionaires. As Brown and his team had predicted, Cameron asked if the PM would keep to his promise to raise the IHT threshold from £325,000 to £350,000 next year. The Tory leader thought he would win either way. If Brown said yes, it...

Cameron in Afghanistan says Tories are 'unlikely' to reduce UK troop levels

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Tory leader tells Afghan National Army trainees he will not "cut and run" On a three-day visit to Afghanistan this weekend, David Cameron said he would not commit to any timetable for pulling out British troops and said it was "pretty unlikely" troop numbers would be reduced by the Conservatives should they win next year's general election. Appearing to suggest he...

Another Tory Leader steps down after planning questions...

Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

The Conservative Leader of a Lincolnshire Council has been forced to step down after a newspaper investigation into a planning matters. Bernard Theobald is facing questions over a planning application to develop land he jointly purchased with another elected member of his controlling group. The previous owner claims that before he sold the land, planning officers at West Lindsey District Council...

Cameron: more Hague than Blair? How the Tory leader has lost sight of his strategy

Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

In an article for the Independent, Steve Richards argued that the best comparison for David Cameron's leadership was not with Tony Blair, but with William Hague. Here Stephen Tall looks at that claim, and argues that the Tory leader has abandoned his strategy of sticking to the centre-ground in favour of uniting his party around a right-wing programme ... "No-one who's observed...

Huhne on Goldsmith and Ashcroft: “the Tories see taxes as something that happens to other people”

Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that top Tory Zac Goldsmith did not tell his local party about his ‘non-dom’ tax status when he was selected to fight the next election against the Lib Dems’ Susan Kramer: Earlier this week announced that he [sic] planned to surrender his “non-dom” status from the current tax year to defuse the [...]

Tories exposed: Enviromental cost of 'Green' David Cameron's private jet flights

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Tory leader makes impassioned plea for us all to cut carbon emissions ..then flies Glasgow to Gatwick creating 100 times pollution of doing journey by train