If I hear one more politician from the Labour, Tory or Liberal Democrat parties tell us of the need for financial "prudence" I will go spare. They wouldn't know financial prudence if it bit them on the backside. The Labour Party, while our dear leader was Chancellor, frittered away untold billions of pounds of public money on various pet projects and for no discernible improvement. But worse ...

At Tory conference last year, I asked a senior Tory adviser where the party would deliver substantive change and he replied 'where we take on the vested interests.' This analysis is correct. You can't change things if you aren't prepared to take on the status quo. So, it is encouraging to hear David Cameron defining himself today as a man who will take on the vested interests w...

David Cameron's refusal to offer a referendum on Europe would spell ''absolutely certain disaster'' for Britain in the event of the a Tory election win, the UK Independence Party leader said yesterday.

Renewable energy companies say the Conservatives are planning to overhaul the environmental subsidy system by offering wind farm developers a 'feed-in-tariff' in place of renewables obligation

Energy analysts have criticised Tory plans to effect the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy policy in a generation as "verging on the impossible".

Energy analysts have criticised Tory plans to effect the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy policy in a generation as "verging on the impossible".

It is rare that a political party is handed an issue that enables it to rally its base, appeal to swing voters and put the other side on the back foot. But that is how much of a gift to the Tories these strikes are. There has been a bit of an enthusiasm deficit amongst Tory activists and traditional Tories more generally ever since David Cameron recalibrated the party's European policy follow...

The UK Independence Party will not stand against Eurosceptic rivals in other parties at the general election, its leader says.

The Red Tory, Phillip Blond, is in the States spreading the faith. The New York Times’s David Brooks is impressed, very impressed. In fact, he is a proselytising convert. ‘Britain is always going to be more hospitable to communitarian politics than the more libertarian U.S. But people are social creatures here, too. American society has been atomized by the twin revolutions here, too. ...

David Cameron has launched what he described as the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy policy in a generation, as he set out Conservative proposals to mobilise the massive investment needed to secure supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions