Dawn Primarolo MP, Labour’s Children and Families Minister said: "Parents need policies not platitudes from David Cameron. Families in Britain don't just want warm words, they deserve to know exactly what David Cameron would do to support them. "David Cameron has refused to protect funding for schools or Sure Start over the next three years. Instead he would cut £200m each yea...

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

Here are further extracts from Cameron on Cameron, a collection of interviews between Cameron and Dylan Jones, the editor of GQ, published today.

No need to mince words: it was a brilliant speech.  David Cameron's conference speech was a triumph Unlike last year's bravura performance without a script, this time there was a lectern and a written text. There was no pacing around the stage. This was, as David Cameron described it himself, a sober speech for sombr...

In an idle moment in Tory Central Office last night they calculated where David Cameron now stood in terms of longevity as leader. Today is his third anniversary. They reckon he has now beaten Michael Howard, Iain Duncan Smith, Alec Douglas-Home, Austen Chamberlain, Anthony Eden and one other. I would make this a Christmas quiz with a Tory election egg timer as a prize but the awful advent of Goog...

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

Extracts from David Cameron's interview on Sky ahead of the Conservative conference in Birmingham

Milton Keynes: Three words stand out from David Cameron's speech on the deficit this morning - but few, if any, details. The words tell the story that the prime minister wants the country to understand. They are "unavoidable", "legacy" and "together". His message, in other words, is that of an economic wartime leader claiming to have inherited a crisis that we must all now act to resolve. Whe...

The Tories have not left the European People’s Party. They are not going to. Other than Dan Hannan, who is already out of it, every Tory elected on 4th June will retain membership and at least implicitly tell David Cameron where to go. Not that he will be going anywhere, because the whole thing was always a lie. David Cameron is Michael Heseltine’s Vicar on Earth, his mini-me. Of course he has...

One of the surprises of the Tory leadership campaign in 2005 was how David Davis bested David Cameron in the TV debate between the two men. Those involved in Cameron’s preparations for that debate blame Cameron’s poor performance on how Michael Gove knocked Cameron’s confidence in the run up to it. Gove was Davis in debate prep and played Davis as a ferociously clever, Oxford Uni...