In the 1997 Westminster election the Conservative Party won 161 thousand votes in Wales. It was such a poor result for them that they were wiped off the Welsh political map returning no Welsh Conservative MPs. In the recent European Election the Conservatives had the most votes of all of the parties throughout Wales and they toped the poll in a whopping 18 Welsh constituencies. But they actually g...

Stuart Wheeler is a member of the Conservative Party who intends to support UKIP in the European election - and is gifting them a rather substantial donation - but intends to vote Conservative in the local elections and at a general election. If I urged all my readers to vote for UKIP I would be expelled from the party and quite rightly so. You cannot be a member of a political party and publicly ...

Compared to the time of the last UK general election, there is now a vast virtual real estate in the British political blogosphere. Currently some of the biggest players are on the right. Conservative Home and its recent offshoot, Centre Right contain some of the most sober political analysis available online. Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale, both combine political light (and not so light) entertainmen...

With a General Election having to take place within the next 14 weeks and the Conservative lead narrowing in the opinion polls, speculation has once again started about whether Gordon Brown will call an early election after the Tory spring forum in Brighton. It was of course during another Conservative conference in the Autumn of

The interesting thing about the massive win for the Conservative Party in the Norwich by-election, is the nature of the victorious Tory candidate. She is a 27 year old woman who has essentially worked up until now mainly for the Conservative Party. The BBC explains that she has been on secondment to the Conservative Party’s central office - she describes

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 ...

As the Conservative poll lead shrinks ever smaller – to just 2 points in Sunday’s YouGov poll – the chances of a Conservative majority after the election are being cut it seems every day. “The Conservative Party has been eased...

Tim Montgomerie provides his (as you would expect) perceptive guide to newspaper endorsements at the next General Election. Which prompts me to speculate - who will Conservative Home endorse? I am not trying to be funny. Conservative Home has built...

In the past I've written about existing archives of political leaflets over at Poliblog Perspective. There's a new political election leaflet archive site on the block today, aiming to capture election leaflets from the current campaigns, and it is now live. The Straight Choice aims to store photos of leaflets uploaded by the general public: Election leaflets are one of the main weapons ...

It’s January 2, and today David Cameron kicked-off the Conservative Party’s election campaign. On Monday, the first part of the manifesto will be published and no doubt Labour and the Liberal Democrats will be out of the blocks soon. I suspect the British (unlike the Americans who are used to long election campaigns) will be heartily sick of politics come the general election, whenever...