Dear Conservative Central Office person, If your party leader has got his facts wrong, editing Wikipedia to try to hide this isn’t likely to work. (Whisper it quietly, but, you know, there are other places people get information from.) Editing from a Conservative Party IP address is also likely to be spotted. Yours, Mark PS Nice to know though

The following facts have just been supplied to journalists at Westminster by Conservative Party spokesmen: Damian Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman was arrested earlier today. He was detained on suspicion of aiding or procuring misconduct in public office.  The arrest is connected to the disclosure of several Home Office documents over the last year.

Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Cabinet Office Minister, today wrote to his Conservative shadow minister Francis Maude, to ask him to explain the Conservative proposals to cut £100m from the Cabinet Office budget. This would be equivalent to dramatic cuts to the Office of the Third Sector which provides funding each year to over 2,000 local charities; 400,000 volunteering opportunities; and man...

Listening to Pat McFadden read out Peter Mandelson's statement on the future of the Royal Mail in the Commons, I got the impression it was going down far better with the Tory MPs than with Labour ones. Edward Leigh, the Conservative rightwinger who tried to privatise the Post Office when he was a minister 15 years ago, said: "I welcome New Labour to the Thatcherite wing of the Conservative pa...

Shadow Cabinet Office minister says party's preparations for government are sign of humility, not hubris

Via The Sunday Times: One of Britain’s least active MEPs has been receiving more than £40,000 a year for office expenses despite having no office in his constituency. David Sumberg, a Conservative MEP for the North West of England, has already declared he pays £54,000 a year for secretarial support from his wife. Since the current European parliament

Footage released by the Conservative party showing police officers in the office of the shadow immigration minister

A few months ago, I noted that a debate was taking place on Conservative Home regarding what appeared to be a rather shambolic, and remarkably undemocratic looking selection process for the Conservative regional lists for Europe. I wasn't gloating, as I was a democracy activist before I joined the Party, and those who know me will know how committed I am to due process and transparency. My

The Department for International Development has usurped the power of the Foreign Office and would be reined under a Conservative government, The Independent has been told.

Conservative claims that they had found a winning formula which would keep threatened Post Offices open fell flat yesterday after it emerged that their figures don't add up. Shadow chancellor George Osborne's plan started to unravel after Labour hit back claiming that it could lock people into benefits, and that they had overestimated the impact of allowing those with Post Office Credit ...