Three years on from his election as Tory leader, it must be mildly worrying for David Cameron to read beastly things about him by academics on ConservativeHome – the website on which fanatical young Tories spend unhealthy amounts of their free time

This morning I listened, as much as you can when your getting kids ready for school, to David Cameron's interview on R4's today. As ever I was irritated by the BBC's instance on pushing the line that Labour would have them take ( the journalistic game of this week is to get the "Tories will cut " headline for Gordon to play with ). But I was impressed by how David Cameron dealt with...

When Michael Howard offered David Cameron the pick of the jobs in the shadow Cabinet after the 2005 election, Cameron chose education. Howard was disappointed that Cameron hadn't opted to shadow Gordon Brown but Cameron argued that education was the most important portfolio. A sense of that commitment was on display today in his speech on education, delivered at one of the new free schools th...

DAVID Cameron appealed for voters to free themselves from the "dark depression" of Gordon Brown yesterday as he sought to get the Tories' election campaign back on

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...

David Cameron has been warned by rebel Tory MPs that they will sabotage future legislation if he does not listen to their concerns.

Parents of children who regularly truant face having their benefits cut, David Cameron has warned, as he opened the first wave of the Government's free schools. Here are the free schools opening this year.

So it looks like that both Eurosceptic Tories and David Cameron have lost in Brussels. The latest news is that the 17 Eurozone countries will negotiate amongst themselves to deliver a treaty change and ignore David Cameron.

But Phillip Blond is too soft on Cameron and Osborne: The financial crisis has changed everything. Economic blue water has opened up between Labour and the Tories. David Cameron has broken with Labour's spending plans and derided the idea that more debt can be the basis for future growth. Gordon Brown has accused the Tories of reverting to Thatcherism and doing nothing in the face of recession. Wi...

David Cameron has placed Ken Clarke on probation. Some Tories believe this is an absurdly lax punishment, which amounts to letting Mr Clarke off scot free.