Michael Crick, BBC Newsnight’s political editor, has revealed leaked minutes of a high-level Conservative Party meeting which reveals that Conservative Central Office have created a “watch list’ of Parliamentary candidates who might cause the Party embarrassment. The minutes also show that there is some unease with some local Conservative Associations, which further reinforces La...

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Michael Crick has received a leaked document from the Tory high command which reveals a secret Conservative candidates “watch list”. Here’s what he says in full: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-listR...

This is probably little more than pre-election nerves, but Michael Crick has been having fun with it: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-list” of those “have the potential to embarrass the Party”. The

The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron's Parliamentary candidates that they've started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a "watch-list" of those "have the potential to embarrass the Party". This is revealed in the minutes - leaked to Newsnight - of a meeting of senior national officials - the party's deputy chairmen and...

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.

Via James Graham: This is probably little more than pre-election nerves, but Michael Crick has been having fun with it: The Conservative Party high command is so worried about some of David Cameron’s Parliamentary candidates that they’ve started holding meetings every two weeks to monitor what they call a “watch-list” of those “have the potential to embarrass

BUCF Chair, Sahar Rezazadeh is blogging live from the Conservative Party Conference this week. Watch this space for updates. @ 14:11 on 5/10/09 – Feed started, watch this space! – BUCF Blog Editor, Alex Yaffe