Tory MPs write to Prime Minister demanding that subsidies paid to "inefficient" onshore wind turbine industry are "dramatically cut".

At the Conservative Conference that was held following the formation of the Coalition government there were many, often negative, views from delegates about the need to be in government with the Liberal Democrats. By contrast, Tory ministers, enjoying government for the first time after a long spell in the political cold, were almost falling over themselves to commend their Lib Dem partners as eff...

Today Tory Mayor Boris Johnson has announced a 1 per cent cut in the Mayor's share of council tax. This will save Band D taxpayers in London just £3.10 a year. Ken Livingstone said; "This is just £3.10 a year, whereas I will save Londoners on average £1,000 over four years by cutting the fares on October 7th this year. "I believe in tough times Londoners need a Mayor who wil...

Labour has just marched into the trap that George Osborne set them and voted against the benefits cap — again. As one gleeful Tory says, ‘we’re going to make sure everyone in the country knows how they voted on this.’   I suspect that in every Labour-held marginal that the Tories need to win to get a majority in 2015 the benefit cap will feature prominently on Tory lit...

Yesterday’s Press Gazette  highlights that the Panorama programme broadcast, entitled Secrets of the Tory Billionaire, on Monday night may help the Independent defend the libel case brought against it by Lord Ashcroft. In a development that you couldn’t make up, the Independent, in its own coverage of the programme,  referred to Lord Ashdown when talking

As expected, the Tories did everything they could to make the benefit cap the subject of PMQs. One Tory MP managed to slip in a question on it just before Miliband got up, allowing Cameron to press the Labour leader on the issue even before he had started speaking. Tory MPs kept coming back to the benefit cap — there were five questions on it in all — allowing Cameron to repeatedly moc...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on the Police Grant Report for England and Wales 2012-13 today, said:

Mary Creagh MP, Labour’s Shadow Environment Secretary, commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report on Flood Risk Management in England (published 31 January), commented:

The number of admitted patients who waited longer than 18 weeks in Southampton has increased by 70% under this Tory-led Government, and it still increasing now. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In Southampton we have now seen waiting-times increase by 70% since David Cameron came to power. This is bad news, but the Tory-led Government's plan to encourage local hospitals t...

One of the flaws of Tory modernisation was that it was never interested enough in pounds and pence. Social issues, the environment and public service reform were what the modernisers specialised in, not economics. But tonight’s Macmillan lecture by Nick Boles, one of the most intellectually influential modernisers, is devoted to the subject of how Britain’s global competiveness in the ...