Cameron says that he wants a General Election, so that people can decide between the Government's and the Tories' "contrasting" approach to the recession. The contrast is this: the Government has a programme, be it good or bad; the Tories are against that programme but, er, that's all. Still want that Election, Dave? Not least at this time of year, be careful what you wish for.

Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …. Cameron adviser discloses cuts detail (FT.com) Anyone who heard David Cameron’s BBC Radio 4 Today Programme interview today will have heard him squirming when asked to confirm the report in the Financial Times today that the Tories’ tax-cuts could

In the middle of August we started a new feature on ConHome called Tories on Today, to record the appearances by Conservative politicians on Radio 4's Today programme. Yet this week's schedule shows that the scorers have barely been troubled,...

David Cameron has just used an interview on Radio 4's Today programme to reject any big change in Conservative economic policy. Conservative economist Andrew Lilico has led a number of calls for the Tories to offer large but temporary tax...

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David Cameron’s interview on the Today Programme this morning was another reminder of what a hard year it is going to be for the government. The bulk of it was devoted to Cameron doing his best to defend and explain the government’s planned reforms to the NHS. Cameron, normally so assured in these interviews, seemed frustrated as John Humphrys kept pushing him on why he was doing it ha...

Ben Bradshaw the Culture Secretary may feel that Radio 4's Today programme has been "biased" towards the Tories this week but he should at least be grateful that it dispatched one of its heavyweight presenters to his party's conference.

Want some more David Cameron?  Well, the Tories are happy to oblige.  After their party leader's speech yesterday, he is interviewed in the FT and appeared on the Today programme earlier.  The FT interview was certainly the more comfortable of the two.  In it, Cameron stikes a confident note – saying that his party have "come a long way," and that "peo...

Iain Martin has a thought-provoking post up about how the Tories lack an attack-dog. Certainly, the Tories lack a shadow Minister for the Today Programme, someone who can be relied to go on when it is a bad morning for the party and deal robustly with a tough interview. This is a position the Tories will need to fill before the campaign gets under way. As Iain says, Chris Grayling was at one point...

To date, David Cameron has played the expenses crisis skilfully. The polls show that the public have seen Cameron as being decisive and Brown as dithering. But this morning on the Today programme, Cameron tied himself in knots talking about the Speaker’s position. Cameron, obviously, doesn’t feel that it is constitutionally right for him to comment on the subject—but why then did...