For some reason (possibly embarrassment) the Conservatives have removed the Democracy Task Force report into answering the West Lothian Question from the internet. But no matter, I have put it back up and you can read it again and again to your heart’s content here. Listed below the DTF document on the Witanagemot Club Links

Yesterday Polly Toynbee said that Labour had not come up with an effective response to Tory rhetoric on the economy. I agree that the debate has moved on from a month ago. So below is a fairly detailed stab at the argument  Labour should make. I believe that the Conservatives are panicked by the failure of

Here’s the verdict from DefenceManagement.com / Defence Management Journal’s end of year email round up: ↓↓↓ The Labour Party We uncovered a simple economic formula sent from Treasury ministers to the MoD. Apparently it never arrived. If inflation is greater than proposed spending increases, your budget will eventually have a deficit. ↔ The Conservatives On the surf...

The Conservatives last night called for a rebalancing of the UK economy, saying for too long it had been over-reliant on financial services and too focused on the south-east of England.

A SKIPPER who became one of the stars of the BBC's documentary series Trawlermen has been chosen by the Conservatives to try to succeed Alex Salmond as the MP for Banff a

The Conservatives last night called for a rebalancing of the UK economy, saying for too long it had been over-reliant on financial services and too focused on the south-east of England.

Hacks seemed unimpressed with this leaked memo from an internal Tory party meeting, but Lobbydog thinks they're overlooking something. The document, leaked on Michael Crick's blog, reveals the Conservatives are taking measures to ensure gawky candidates don't humiliate the party. It reads: "Care needs to be taken over the candidates that have the potential to embarrass the Party - t...

Is there a serious political party which doesn't monitor the activity of its candidates? Yes, the Liberal Democrats, it would seem. Their blogerati are in full cry about Michael Crick's shock revelation (not) that the Conservatives have a candidates committee which, among other things, monitors the performance of its candidates and has a "watch list" of those it considers are likely to s...

This is precisely the sort of tax cut that the Conservatives should be proposing. Removing tax on savings for basic rate tax payers will encourage people to save more, and reward those who do so. David Cameron is definitively right when he says that We need to make a really big change: from an economy built on

Tories today angrily rounded on the SNP in a row over prison overcrowding.