Chris Dillow thinks that that lefties may actually be more conservative than Conservatives: I suspect a reverence for English traditions is more common on the Left than amongst the Conservative Party. Neil Clark’s tastes border on the reactionary; Francis Sedgemore is a Morrisman; you’ll struggle to find a Conservative voter at a meeting of CAMRA or at a Martin Carthy gig. And when Shuggy wr...

We are Conservatives now; we will be Conservatives in May 2015, and at every election in between, says deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.

And why not? The Conservative Party has various diverse fora dedicated to Conservative Christians, Conservative Jews, Conservative Muslims, Conservative Hindus (no Sikhs or Jedi). Not to mention the various cults of inter alia Bruges, Animal Welfare, Way Forward and Rural Action. It is the very task of a political party in a liberal democracy to forge links across a very broad spectrum of popular ...

The Conservatives will be the only truly UK-wide party fighting the next election: The Conservatives will fight for every seat in the UK, including Northern Ireland, at the next General Election. Former Ulster Unionist leader, Lord Trimble, made the announcement to delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The Conservatives are currently engaged in discussions with the Ulster U...

Daniel Cowdrill Ian Gilmour claimed that the Conservative Party is not an ideology. Instead others have argued that Conservatives are essentially pragmatic. This widely-held view has precluded research into Conservative ideology, leaving us with only a vague idea.  However, I think the current recession gives us some pointers. In response to the financial crisis David Cameron

The Conservative Party chairman has written to the Ulster Unionist party suggesting they disband and a new Conservative-led party is formed.

Toot toot! Hold tight! Another one coming on board the quango express. It’s another new quango promised by the Conservatives with, as the Telegraph has reported, Nick Herbert, shadow minister for farming and environment, promising a farmers’ conference that a future Conservative government will implement the Competition Commission’s recommendation to create an ombudsman to rule o...

Tom Elliott, Unionist Party MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, has welcomed a statement by the Conservative party's environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth, in which he spoke out against the increasing reliance placed upon imported foods by families across the United Kingdom.

The news that the Conservatives and the Ulster Unionists are to explore moves towards a joint party (ConservativeHome: The Conservative AND Unionist Party and Conservatives in Northern Ireland: A Historic Statement by David Cameron and Sir Reg Empey) has come as a surprise to me, which is a credit to the discrete negotiation skills of Owen Paterson and stands in complete contrast to the way attemp...

I was a bit mystified when George Osborne, in an otherwise splendid defence of capitalism today, said this: We are a Conservative Party not a libertarian party. As both I and David Cameron have argued, Conservatives have always understood the...