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...

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...

8.59am: David Cameron is holding his regular monthly press conference today, starting at 9.15am. If he's been reading the papers today (for example this piece from John Rentoul in the Independent), he may be feeling a a bit hubristic. But if he's got any sense, he won't show it. We'll find out soon. 8.37am: Minute-by-minute coverage from 9.15am. David CameronConservativesguardi...

The more we look at yesterday's speech from David Cameron, the more that's wrong with it.

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...

Interesting speech by David Cameron this morning. He was direct about half of what a Conservative government would have to do if it inherited the public finances in the shocking state to which Gordon Brown has reduced them

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 ...

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...

This is the third wave of commentary on David Cameron's speech. The first was the blogs on the day. I agreed most with Matthew d'Ancona's take.