Last night, St. Thomas’ Hospital played host to an eagerly anticipated debate organised jointly by the left and right think-tanks Progress and Policy Exchange, with the motion “Has David Cameron Changed the Conservative Party for Good?” On the panel, Policy Exchange co-founder Michael Gove and Fraser Nelson (political editor of the Spectator) to put the case for the motion, while...

David Cameron today called the latest report from Policy Exchange 'insane'. As well he might. But for the modern Conservative Party, the only thing insane, was to say this stuff out loud. Because for the think tank, the ranks of which make up a large chunk of the new Tory establishment, these views are nothing out of the ordinary. The report which basically suggests that government should concentr...

David Cameron today called the latest report from Policy Exchange 'insane'. As well he might. But for the modern Conservative Party, the only thing insane, was to say this stuff out loud. Because for the think tank, the ranks of which make up a large chunk of the new Tory establishment, these views are nothing out of the ordinary. The report which basically suggests that government should concentr...

How fickle friends can be in the world of politics. Once described as David Cameron's favourite think tank, the Conservative leader could hardly wait to distance himself from Policy Exchange yesterday.

All day the idiotic Policy Exchange report on northern cities (message: close Liverpool down, it's the only language scousers understand) has been branded as coming from David Cameron's "favourite think tank" Policy Exchange. And so it has been with money flooding into PE as wealthy individuals and corporate Britain try to get alongside the Cameroons. There have been lots...

David Cameron has just used an interview on Radio 4's Today programme to reject any big change in Conservative economic policy. Conservative economist Andrew Lilico has led a number of calls for the Tories to offer large but temporary tax...

The Policy Exchange - "David Cameron's favourite think-tank" - may not be his favourite think-tank today. The publication of a report decrying regeneration of some Northern cities and seeming to call on people to migrate to the South-East is, as Cameron himself said, "insane". The timing of it appearing in the media - on the day Cameron starts a tour of Northern cities - couldn't be wors...

Iain pointed out yesterday that Policy Exchange had become David Cameron's least favourite think-tank (as opposed to his favourite) after it published a report suggesting that regenerating the north of England was a waste of time and that Northerners should move to the south instead. Unsurprisingly, with David Cameron currently undertaking a tour of the North West and West Midlands, the ...

Labour’s Karen Buck has hit back at claims by David Cameron that the Living Wage is Conservative policy and that Boris Johnson introduced it in London, warning that the “Tories have not changed and cannot be trusted to raise family living standards”. In an article for The Guardian today David Cameron said: “The one progressive new

Policy Exchange &# widely regarded as David Cameron's favourite think-tank &# was founded in 2001 to keep the modernising flame burning in Conservative ranks after the right-winger Iain Duncan Smith was elected leader.