Even those who are sceptical about global warming can probably see much to welcome in today's announcement by David Cameron and Greg Clark that the Conservatives plan to install smart meters in every UK home. The meters would be linked...

The Conservatives met in Brighton this weekend for their last gathering before the General Election. David Cameron set out some of the changes that could be expected from a Conservative Government. The essential message was a stark choice of 5 more years of Gordon Brown's tired government making things worse or David Cameron and the Conservatives with the energy, leadership and values to get ...

President of the EPP Party Wilfried Martens has just upped the pressure on David Cameron by asking for a clear decision by April from the Tory leader as to whether the UK Conservatives will sit in the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament after the elections in June. This is at odds with the Cameron

David Cameron has admitted he cannot promise to reverse planned increases in National Insurance if the Conservatives come to power.

David Cameron the Tory leader has said that the Conservatives are the party of the NHS as he attempts to repair the damage caused by last week's row over health policy.

It may have taken over 3 years, but David Cameron has finally delivered on his pledge to take the Conservative Party out of the federast EPP bloc. For such bold leadership - and for sticking to his guns when attacked by some of his own MEPs for doing so - David Cameron deserves the praise of all Eurosceptic Tories. The excellent Prague Declaration, formally launching the European Conservatives &am...

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...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to David Cameron's speech at the London School of Economics today, said: "David Cameron has confirmed the Conservatives would do nothing to boost the economy right now. "The Tories would turn their backs on families and businesses just when they need real help to get through tough times. "David Cameron has shown he wo...

When I first began to read that David Cameron could soon be toppled by all this News of the World stuff, I was amazed, just as I was amazed when I first heard about the News of the World itself being shut. I still don't know how badly Cameron is threatened, but if he is threatened, he has only himself to blame. Cameron got the job of leading the Conservatives because enough of them thought...

Forget Ed Miliband’s promise of ‘optimism’ - a mantra that became so repetitive it had me reaching for the Scotch and revolver. Philip Collins has delivered a far more cutting verdict on David Cameron’s obsession with austerity. He writes (£): ‘Conservatives such David Cameron are not philosophers. The question to ask of Mr Cameron is not: what does he believe? I...