Back in 2005 I was at an Edinburgh event attended by David Cameron. The soon-to-be Tory leader entered the room and worked the crowd. He shook my hand and said: "Hello, I'm David Cameron." "Hello, I'm David Farrer," I replied. The chap to my left looked at me. Cameron turned to my neighbour and once again said: "Hello, I'm David Cameron." And my neighbour replied: "Hello, I'm David Purdie." I

I've just got back from a fascinating four-day trip accompanying David Cameron and a small Tory team to Afghanistan and Pakistan. As the only newspaper journalist on the mission, I got an excellent close-up view of his operation.   David Cameron speaks to the media in Islamabad The Tory team was: Cameron, William Hague, Sayeeda Warsi (Pakistan leg only), Ed Llewellyn (chief of staff), An...

David Cameron may be just another progressive as are the majority of the "inner circle" and quite possibly a substantial number of current Tory MPs, but the fact remains that if Cameron is to win the next election he needs another 150 or so new Tory MPs - and this suggests that there may be life in the old party yet. David Cameron will head a party dominated by MPs more socially conservative and l...

It has been widely trailed that David Cameron is going to outline his new European policy today, after capitulating yesterday on the Treaty of Lisbon issue. The feral members of the Tory Party are baying for blood, so what is Cameron going to give them? The most likely position that Cameron is going to propose to negotiate

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For Conservative party Kremlinologists, today's interview with David Cameron and William Hague in the Sun is fascinating. Cameron uses the interview to announce that Hague is now deputy Tory leader "in all but name". But Hague has not been formally given the title and, given that he has always deputised for Cameron at PMQs and chaired meetings in Cameron's absence, there were good ground...

The simple answer: no. The Tory leader breezed into the party to launch Cameron on Cameron by GQ editor Dylan Jones last night looking mightily at ease with the world. David Cameron: An unruffled and charismatic speaker  He was also full of jokes. He had just come from Euston after travelling down from Birmingham with half the Cabinet. "They were all there," he told the party guests. "And the...

There was something entirely predictable about the mortgage on David Cameron’s constituency home getting drawn into the expenses scandal. Even Tory MPs supportive of the line Cameron has taken on this issue have, in private, pointed to it; noting that Cameron himself had found the most politically palatable way to make the system work for him. (It should be stressed that Cameron’s clai...

David Cameron wants to be seen as a caring localist, wants to break the power of state service provision and save money. He can have two of these three things, but trying for all of them will destroy him. David Cameron’s speech yesterday was a perfect example of how politicians deal with contradictory impulses. Cameron set

At the start of his party’s conference in Manchester, Tory leader David Cameron has announced plans “to get Britain working again” – but his comments have drawn a sharp response from the Lib Dems’ shadow work and pensions secretary Steve Webb: This is yet more Tory posturing. Much of what David Cameron is proposing – such