The latest edition of Standpoint casts David Cameron’s top adviser Steve Hilton into its “Overrated” column: Between David Cameron’s election as leader and his hoped-for entry into 10 Downing Street, Steve Hilton will have cost the Conservative party at least a million pounds. Despite vast debts, the Tories are reported to be paying their chief strategist

Tim Montgomerie reports that the 1922 Committee is to launch its own inquiry into the Tories’ election campaign. This, as I understand it, is in addition to the party’s official inquiry, and therefore suggests that the backbenches want to assert their independence by criticising Steve Hilton and George Osborne’s strategy. After May’s ruptures between Cameron and the backben...

Shadow chancellor George Osborne appealed to Gordon Brown today to follow the Tories' advice on the economy before he reached for the "desperate last resort" of printing money.

Today's coverage: Tories face tough choices - and moving George Osborne is one of them - Iain Martin Sadly, George Osborne should go - Janet Daley Why we need Ken Clarke to take on Alistair Darling - Tracy Corrigan David Cameron should replace George Osborne with Ken Clarke - Alex SingletonIain Martin has been becoming noticeably increasingly incensed with the Tory's incoherency on the economy. To...

Steve Hilton the Conservative Party's pintsize Rasputinlike figure whose influence is as large as his profile is low

Not for the first time, a throwaway line in a Spectator article by James Forsyth has been picked up by Fleet St and set the hares running. It's about Steve Hilton, Cameron's best friend and chief strategist, and whether he'll quit. Hilton is a man in a hurry — rightly, in my view, as the Tories are not incapable of blowing the next election. So he wants things transformed, and...

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's Director of Strategy, is subject to a strong attack in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine. The attack contains at least two inaccuracies in the first paragraph. It overstates his salary (although it is still very...

Steve Hilton, one of David Cameron’s most senior advisers, has suggested that Britain should abolish maternity leave And why not? The newspaper quoted a source close to Mr Hilton suggesting that he thought that maternity leave rights were “the biggest obstacle to woman finding work”. This is true, it’s also one of the leading causes

A Liberal Democrat minister has suggested David Cameron's closest aide Steve Hilton should be "scrapped" as a Cabinet split loomed over family policies.

Standpoint has run a silly, graceless article attacking Cameron adviser Steve Hilton, which Tim Montgomerie replies to very competently on Conservative Home. I'd just like to add one quick further word. Since the article was written by someone under the...