Via James Graham: This is probably little more than pre-election nerves, but Michael Crick has been having fun with it: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-list” of those “have the potential to embarrass

Michael Crick has received a leaked document from the Tory high command which reveals a secret Conservative candidates “watch list”. Here’s what he says in full: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-listR...

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Conservative Party leader David Cameron takes part in an annual charity mud race in his west Oxfordshire constituency.

One in the eye of David Cameron, who used the BBC, and specifically Michael Crick, to hound the token moral and social conservative (with links to things like CARE) whom he had felt obliged to make Party Chairman as a sort of fig-leaf. Crick, of course, was the man who invented the myth of the Militant Tendency, which in reality barely existed beyond Merseyside and had far fewer members than even ...

Early reactions to David Cameron's speech have been very positive. Members of the Tory leader's inner circle are delighted with the results. I have described it for the paper as Cameron coming out as a conservative. This was a genuinely philosophical speech and potentially a classic conservative text. The interlocking of traditional  conservative themes - sound money, low tax, famil...

David Cameron victim of crime Bike riding Conservative Leader David Cameron has had his mountain bike stolen from outside of the Portobello Road branch of Tesco in London, I feel for him. Being a victim of crime is no fun at all, the upside is that he is (a) well placed to be able to afford

David Cameron is to bring the Ulster Unionists under the Tory whip to shore up the Britishness of the Conservative Party: David Cameron is to launch the biggest shake-up of the Conservative Party for decades as part of a bold plan to win support across the whole of the United Kingdom. The Tories are to forge a

David Cameron may be just another progressive as are the majority of the "inner circle" and quite possibly a substantial number of current Tory MPs, but the fact remains that if Cameron is to win the next election he needs another 150 or so new Tory MPs - and this suggests that there may be life in the old party yet. David Cameron will head a party dominated by MPs more socially conservative and l...

Michael Crick, BBC Newsnight’s political editor, has revealed leaked minutes of a high-level Conservative Party meeting which reveals that Conservative Central Office have created a “watch list’ of Parliamentary candidates who might cause the Party embarrassment. The minutes also show that there is some unease with some local Conservative Associations, which further reinforces La...