In the past week, the Conservatives have been talking up their chances of doing a deal with the Liberal Democrats if the forthcoming general election fails to deliver them a working majority. Conservative shadow business secretary Ken Clarke has even suggested that “Nick Clegg is a conservative”. David Cameron meanwhile regularly describes himself as a “liberal

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said the Tories had been ''caught out'' over the Ashcroft affair, which had shown that Mr Cameron had ''neither the bottle nor the backbone'' to stand up to his party's billionaire benefactor.

David Cameron overrules Ken Clarke after the shadow business secretary appears to backtrack on a Tory commitment to spell out details of a core tax policy ahead of the general election

A future Conservative government would put a carbon tax on electricity generation to encourage investment in renewables and nuclear power, David Cameron is to say

A new online computer game, ZombielandUK, allows players to kill zombie versions of top British politicians, including Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg.

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Last week, Nick Clegg was singing the blues.  But, this week, it's clear that he's doing as much as possible to distinguish his party from the others.  Indeed, his performance in PMQs yesterday was a case in point: he went out of his way to attack both Brown and Cameron, and positioned his side as the non-Unite, non-Ashcroft choice.  Given the Lib Dem's recent history...

David Cameron has reached out to black voters telling them that the Conservative Party had come ''a long way'' when it came to opening itself up to ethnic minorities.

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