Back in 2005 I was at an Edinburgh event attended by David Cameron. The soon-to-be Tory leader entered the room and worked the crowd. He shook my hand and said: "Hello, I'm David Cameron." "Hello, I'm David Farrer," I replied. The chap to my left looked at me. Cameron turned to my neighbour and once again said: "Hello, I'm David Cameron." And my neighbour replied: "Hello, I'm David Purdie." I

A "massive culture change in Britain" would be ushered in by a Tory government in an attempt to save the country from bankruptcy David Cameron has said.

David Cameron asks Tory MPs to back changes to their backbench committee, which would give the leadership more power.

I've just got back from a fascinating four-day trip accompanying David Cameron and a small Tory team to Afghanistan and Pakistan. As the only newspaper journalist on the mission, I got an excellent close-up view of his operation.   David Cameron speaks to the media in Islamabad The Tory team was: Cameron, William Hague, Sayeeda Warsi (Pakistan leg only), Ed Llewellyn (chief of staff), An...

The basis for what I am about to write is from this, by Frasier Nelson on the Spectator, where he has put up details sent to him of a meeting between David Cameron and Tory MP's held in the Boothroyd Room. The purpose of the meeting was to address MP's concerns on whether his recent apology was the signal for a change of direction and strategy. During this meeting internal polling was used to show...

The scale of tonight’s rebellion is quite remarkable, 43 percent of Tory backbenchers have defied a three line whip—and we are only 18 months into the parliament. Indeed, if you factor in the abstentions more than half of Tory backbenchers rebelled. This should be a wake-up call to David Cameron. He needs to develop a proper policy for repatriating powers from Brussels, change his styl...

David Cameron may be just another progressive as are the majority of the "inner circle" and quite possibly a substantial number of current Tory MPs, but the fact remains that if Cameron is to win the next election he needs another 150 or so new Tory MPs - and this suggests that there may be life in the old party yet. David Cameron will head a party dominated by MPs more socially conservative and l...

It has been widely trailed that David Cameron is going to outline his new European policy today, after capitulating yesterday on the Treaty of Lisbon issue. The feral members of the Tory Party are baying for blood, so what is Cameron going to give them? The most likely position that Cameron is going to propose to negotiate

David Cameron yesterday slapped down a senior Tory who compared climate change activists to the Taliban, as he continued his attempt to green his party, despite the recession and opposition from sceptics.

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