David Cameron says he will impose all-women shortlists on a highly resistant Conservative party next year, in an attempt to increase the number of female candidates fighting winnable seats at the next election
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FT on 20th Oct 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The Times reflects on David Cameron's lack of women on the front bench. David Cameron has lined up an all-male team to attack Labour over the economy, raising concerns within his own ranks that he has downgraded his pledge to promote women in the Conservative Party. A high-profile female parliamentary candidate said: “The fact that there are not more women in the inner circle inevitably...
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Ranting Stan on 28th Apr 2009 (via rantingstan.blogspot.com)
Millions of women are rejecting David Cameron amid fears over the handling of the economy and public spending cuts, the Conservative Party's own private polling has disclosed.
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Telegraph on 17th Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader David Cameron appeals for "can-do optimism" during an "anxious time" for the country's economy in his speech to the Conservative Party Autumn Conference.
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Telegraph on 5th Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
A revealing story in today’ News of the World - Gone-servative Party - appears to show that David Cameron’s honeymoon is over. Mr Cameron has lost over 40,000 members of the Conservative Party since becoming leader. There is a long term decline in membership of all political parties but even taking this into account, to lose
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TomWatson on 21st Dec 2008 (via tom-watson.co.uk)
The Times launches a strong attack on David Cameron's alleged failure to change the "male-dominated" Conservative Party this morning. "Women take a back seat in Cameron's Tory Party" is the main front page splash. A leader on page 2 says...
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ConservativeHome on 28th Apr 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Iain Dale holds a unique position in the Conservative blogosphere. He is not a "my-party-right-or-wrong" die hard, and yet neither does he embrace the futile posturing of the anti-Cameroons that form the bulk of Conservative Home postings. His politics are, I sense, to a great degree truly the "Liberal-Conservative" ideology that David Cameron positions himself as holding, and even though we may q...
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CicerosSongs on 25th Feb 2009 (via cicerossongs.blogspot.com)
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
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LittleManInAToque on 24th Jul 2008 (via toque.co.uk)
Whilst the Conservative Party spring forum takes place in Cheltenham, the Ulster Unionst Party Annual General Meeting is being held in Belfast. David Cameron is obviously unable to be there in person, but he sent a video message in which...
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ConservativeHome on 25th Apr 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
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...
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IainMartin on 1st Oct 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)