The Conservatives are accused of a U-turn on their pledge to build 5,000 new prison places.

Part of the reason that the Conservatives did so badly in 1997 and 2001 was because a lot of people who had voted Conservative in 1992 stayed at home during those two elections. Mike Smithson argues that one of the reasons why the Tory leads in the polls are so high nowadays is because they are intending to turn out (and vote Conservative) at the next general election.

The Conservatives attack the government over the thousands of mobile phones smuggled into prisons.

Now that the Tory party is about to embark on an unedifying internal spat over the gay marriage vote, I would commend students of political history to read Michael McManus’s beautifully written and well-researched book Tory Pride and Prejudice: the Conservative Party and Homosexual Reform. Readers may be surprised to learn that supporters of the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in privat...

THE Conservative MP and deputy speaker Nigel Evans is today expected to admit that he is homosexual.

The newspaper which seems happy to run a series of articles entitled 'The New Conservatives' - The Guardian - today reveals that Labour has decided how to fight Cameron's Conservatives. Remember their failed attack against Blair, 'New Labour, New Danger'? Welcome to 'New Tories, old danger'! Labour has decided to attack the Conservatives at the next election as a...

The BBC is gleefully reporting a Tory U-turn because they have announced that they will spend less than Labour following an election. The pledge "to match Labour spending plans for 2 years" was made in the expectation of a 2008 election. Thus the wriggle that the Tories had been using was that it did not, in fact commit them to anything should there be a 2010 election. It was a useful pledge to sh...

The most senior homosexual member of David Cameron's front bench team will be sent on a gay rights march in Poland to encourage the party's European Conservative allies to become less prejudiced.

John Rentoul reveals that The Independent on Sunday’s latest poll, conducted by ComRes, shows another 21 point Tory lead. The Tories are on 46, Labour on 25 and the Lib Dems 16. Interestingly, among likely voters 38 percent think of themselves as generally speaking Conservatives, 30 percent Labour and 14 percent Lib Dems implying that Brown is acting as at least something of a drag on Labour...

Tories today angrily rounded on the SNP in a row over prison overcrowding.