In 2005 David Cameron announced "I am the heir to Blair". Then later, I think, he realised this was not a good thing to be and all talk of the Blair legacy project was abandoned.It seems strange, then, that the Tories now seem to be once again flirting with the idea of being the "heirs to Blair", as evidenced by Dr Strangelove's Michael Gove's interview in the Guardian yesterday when he said: "We

Michael Portillo has probably more than most Tory commentators, a pronounced tendency towards the Cassandra end of political prophesiers. At the time Brown took over from Blair, he wondered if the conceit of the new liberal Tory top table had misjudged Brown, and set themselves up for a Conservative collapse. Well, no one on the Tory front benches is exactly singing the 'heir to Blair' t...

The Tories accuse the government of "mis-selling" ID cards after Alistair Darling appeared to suggest they would be scrapped.

The BBC are up to their usual games, seeking to undermine a top Tory. Conservative supporters should ask themselves why Labour, Mr Mandelson and the BBC are so keen to foment the Osborne story. It’s because George has a good political mind and is important to Project Cameron. Life would be a lot easier for Labour if

One of our people at the UN had the following to say yesterday: "She said it should be kept in mind that journalists were civilians, and must be protected as such, but journalists should also respect the human dignity of those captured in armed conflict by not making them the object of “public curiosity”. Hmm, so filming bedraggled POWs with hands on heads is all out, isn it?

FORMER PM Tony Blair today set up a global education programme aimed at promoting greater understanding of the major world religions.

Yesterday David Cameron announced that the Conservatives would grow public spending more slowly than Labour. He did not announce cuts. It's not the easiest message to communicate but broadcasters shouldn't be allowed to misreport the Conservative plan. Each time that...

Tory poll lead, blah blah blah. Believe in a Tory victory when it actually happens, and not a moment before. By the time of the 1997 Labour victory, it had been inevitable for four and a half years, twice as long as anyone had ever heard of Tony Blair. But pretending that the Tories matter is the only thing that keeps anyone at all voting Labour, never mind leafleting for them or what have you. An...

In a speech today Labour's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, welcomed two former Conservative Party activists to the Labour Party and said the project to change the Conservative Party had failed. David Miliband said: "The Tory head and the Tory heart are at odds. The head tells them that the world has changed, that they have been rejected at three elections because they were seen as the nast...

The Conservative party has refused to give unequivocal backing to a new rail line project in London in a move that could set it on a collision course with Boris Johnson, the Tory mayor