Fresh from losing the Mayor election in Bedford to Dave Hodgson comes this news of further Conservative problems, via the BBC: The leader of the Conservative group on Bedford Borough Council has been suspended from the party for two years. The Tory Party said the action against Nicky Attenborough was taken because of comments she made about

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...

And why not? The Conservative Party has various diverse fora dedicated to Conservative Christians, Conservative Jews, Conservative Muslims, Conservative Hindus (no Sikhs or Jedi). Not to mention the various cults of inter alia Bruges, Animal Welfare, Way Forward and Rural Action. It is the very task of a political party in a liberal democracy to forge links across a very broad spectrum of popular ...

Not content with launching a Conservative Wiki, Conservative Home's plans for global domination have taken a massive leap this week with the launch of a new brand, Conservative International. Clearly unhappy at not appearing on television enough and considering that appearing only on British television is insufficient for a man of his political skill and unerring timing, Conservative Home edi...

I have been saying for some time that if Conservative Eurosceptics are taken in by the Tory front bench hostility to Europe in opposition, they must be delusional. There is nothing in the history of the Conservative Party to show that this is anything other than the rhetoric of opposition and that it will melt away like snow in the spring sunshine should they ever get into office. Heath took us in...

The BBC is at loggerheads with the Conservative Party over plans to screen a documentary about Lord Ashcroft, a key member of David Cameron's election team.

Breaking news: Green slop throwing Leila Dean has announced this morning that she is to stand for the Conservative Party at the next election. Hidden amongst the G20 news the BBC announced that David Cameron had "welcomed" Dean into the party saying that although "the Conservative Party did not condone direct action, the issue of climate change was of such vital importance that it is understandabl...

Dear Conservative Central Office person, If your party leader has got his facts wrong, editing Wikipedia to try to hide this isn’t likely to work. (Whisper it quietly, but, you know, there are other places people get information from.) Editing from a Conservative Party IP address is also likely to be spotted. Yours, Mark PS Nice to know though

Stuart Wheeler is a member of the Conservative Party who intends to support UKIP in the European election - and is gifting them a rather substantial donation - but intends to vote Conservative in the local elections and at a general election. If I urged all my readers to vote for UKIP I would be expelled from the party and quite rightly so. You cannot be a member of a political party and publicly ...

Next week's Diary will be written by Richard Graham, PPC for Gloucestersays Conservative Home. It should make interesting reading, because Richard Graham has run into a spot of bother. The BBC says: A local Conservative Party association has apologised after its candidate for the next general election was accused of insulting the sitting Labour MP. Writing on his blog, Richard Graham, Tory ca...