What an odd sight to see David Cameron making an announcement yesterday on tax which was based on what the Tories would do if they were in power now, not noticing that they are not actually in power now. But more odd was the the shadow chancellor, Gideon Osborne sat on meekly watching as David Cameron made an announcement on taxation. It spoke volumes about what the Tories think of Osborne.

Although David Cameron denounced the "pitiful" Budget proposals, the Conservatives would not reverse the stamp duty increase or most of the other tax rises

  David Cameron has fallen right into the trap that Gordon Brown laid for him on tax rises for high earners. In an interview for the Telegraph, Mr Cameron effectively refuses to promise that he will reverse the Brown-Darling increase of the top rate of tax to 45 per cent for those earning over £150,000 -...

David Cameron came under pressure to clarify tax policy after signalling that a Tory government would seek to reverse 'at least a part' of a national insurance increase

Two articles from the Sunday papers concerning the readiness of David Cameron and the Conservatives to take power are worth reading. Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer and Michael Portillo in the Sunday Times both fire warning shots across the Tory leader's bows, asking just how ready Cameron really is for government. And are we in a new era of open government with last week's publication of civil se...

The Telegraph claims that Cameron’s Conservatives are looking at increasing VAT to 20% if they win the next election: A shadow ministerial source said: “Tax rises will have to be part of the equation. It will be time for some strong medicine.” By moving quickly to increase VAT after the election, senior Conservatives believe they will

David Cameron struck a nerve with me today, in his Comment is Free article entitled, “A Radical Power Shift”. The Orwellian usurpation of Tony Benn’s “irreversible shift in wealth and power” byline to one side, which is playing to the recent media fad for “Red Tories”, Cameron comes out in favour of subsidiarity. Cameron wants

David Cameron will tomorrow pledge to deliver the most dramatic redistribution of power in living memory David Cameron will tomorrow pledge to deliver the most dramatic redistribution of power in living memory as he attempts to deal with the concerns of voters left disgusted by the row over MPs' expenses. In a broad-ranging article in the Guardian, Cameron declares that he would trim back the...

Better late than never. David Cameron has pulled himself off the hook: the Conservatives will not stick to Labour's spending plans after 2010. Which is to say, they will abandon them at the first opportunity if and when they get into power. David Cameron has finally severed himself from Brownian economics Of course, disengaging y...

The president's speech in Tuscon showed the transforming power of language - a power that David Cameron has thus far been unable to master, argues Janet Daley.