ICM Poll: Conservatives surge into four point lead over Labour
Ed Miliband's campaign suffers a major blow as David Cameron's Conservatives gain six points on last month in latest ICM poll
- 16 February 2015
Labour’s Tristram Hunt sneers; Catholics having nun of it
Not content with waging war against British businesses, Labour is now attacking Catholic nuns who teach. Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt’s ignorant and arrogant putdowns have infuriated Catholics and Labour is one step closer to losing the election
- 8 February 2015
Only Labour would view dead parents as ‘winning the lottery’
Labour’s message is simple: if your parents work hard, they will punish you for it. If they put some savings aside for you to inherit, it’s like winning the lottery. The idea of middle class families leaping for joy when their parents die because of financial gain seems an odd one, but it defines Ed Miliband’s warped view of aspiration perfectly
- 5 February 2015
Forget the bacon butty, Ed Miliband has had his chips
Labour lost this election the moment they elected Ed Miliband as their leader. The bacon sandwich incident, the weird mannerisms and bizarre and confusing policies are just the finale of Labour’s greatest mistake for a generation
- 1 February 2015
Al Murray would make a better Prime Minister than Ed Miliband – Poll
The pub landlord Al Murray is preferred as Prime Minister to Labour leader Ed Miliband, according to a new poll from Hotwire
- 26 January 2015
Weird Ed isn't so weird - and why that doesn't even matter
Whilst they may not like it, the Tories may need to learn a thing or two about 'weird Ed'. No amount of harking on about the bacon sandwich incident can endear them to the voters that their policies have neglected and exploited for the last 4 years, says Kate Baldwin
- 20 December 2014
Why a Labour win in 2015 does not bother Tory UKIP defectors
In an exclusive article, one of UKIP's most senior figures claims a Labour victory in 2015 will be a chance for the Conservative party to ‘have a talk’ to itself, for they would have lost the election not because they did not placate enough in the ‘centre ground’ but because they lost their soul
- 19 December 2014
Jim Murphy elected as Scottish Labour leader
Former Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has been elected as the new leader of Scottish Labour
- 13 December 2014
Tories deserve credit for ending Labour's recession
Who's going to be best at raising living standards? Is it Labour, who crashed the car in 2008, or the Conservatives who in coalition have gradually got the vehicle back on the road and moving again?
- 24 April 2014
Even a fading Farage can deny Cameron victory
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
- 2 March 2014
The car smoking ban: A cure worse than the disease
The Left has always seen the independent family as a ‘bourgeois’ obstacle to total state control. That is what the car smoking ban is all about - political interference in private family life
- 4 February 2014
Time to leave: British Labour grandee informs countryfolk
It is increasingly likely that by 2015 Britain will have a left-wing government with an undiminished appetite for people-harming experiments that are imposed in an arbitrary way. The flooding of Somerset is just the beginning
- 3 February 2014
How the Tories can become the party of the under-25s
Far from being 'alien' to young voters, the Conservative party has the scope to become the natural party of the under-25s
- 29 January 2014
New research shows UK Anglicans still Conservative, Muslim vote is Labour's to lose
Ordinary Anglicans veer to the Right, regardless of the liberal-Left reputation of many Bishops, while Muslims veer strongly to the Left. This doesn't mean religion is decisive in UK politics, but it does mean politicians need to take heed
- 26 January 2014
Conservatives should listen to grassroots, but warily
Activists of any party (democratic or otherwise) can be the most committed, smartest and most helpful of allies. But among them there are also blinkered dogmatists and a fair smattering of narcissists who harm the cause they claim to support
- 14 January 2014
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