Articles tagged David Cameron:
EDP Diary: Up for an Award
- 18 Jul 2007
As you read this column, think of me as I spend a week in Rwanda along with forty assorted Tory MPs, candidates and volunteers. They have each forked out the best part of £1,000 to spend a fortnight on a VSO backed scheme to do good works in a country still ravaged by the afte...
Telegraph Column: Is Cameron Really Policy-Lite?
- 5 Jul 2007
After a fortnight of remorseless battering, Tory MPs at last have a spring in their step. Gordon Brown’s lacklustre performance at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday proved to them that the new Prime Minister is far from infallible. The look on the faces of Labour MPs sai...
Telegraph Column: How Should Cameron Respond to Brown's Reshuffle?
- 21 Jun 2007
By this time next week Gordon Brown will have restructured Whitehall and formed his first Cabinet. David Cameron will then rejig his own team once he knows who his opponents are. Brown’s reshuffle is likely to be radical, with almost half the existing Blair cabinet exp...
Telegraph Column: What Should Cameron Do About the Special Relationship?
- 8 Mar 2007
Since 1917 Britain’s relationship with the United States has been the most important component of our foreign policy. When former US Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer was told by Number Ten to “crawl up the backside of the White House and stay there” he became merely the latest...
Responding to Frederick Forsyth
- 24 Feb 2007
I am honoured that Frederick Forsyth has written a letter to the Telegraph commenting on my article on Wednesday. Here it is... Sir - Iain Dale ("Tories' Champagne should stay on ice", Comment, February 21) tells us that David Cameron "wanted to make Lib Dem voters feel th...
Telegraph Column: Is David Cameron in Touch with the Mood of the People?
- 20 Feb 2007
Following years of flatlining, you could forgive Conservative Party strategists if they had all got blind drunk after hearing of their nine point poll lead in yesterday’s ICM poll. But there’s a good reason why the champagne glasses were still dry in the pine dressers of Notti...
Telegraph Column: Who is David Cameron's Willie?
- 8 Feb 2007
If, as Margaret Thatcher believed, every Prime Minister needs a ‘Willie’, it is not unreasonable to think that a Leader of the Opposition needs one too. Thatcher was, of course referring to her trusted deputy, Willie Whitelaw, who gave her total loyalty, wise counsel and spoke...
EDP Diary: Unfit to be President?
- 7 Feb 2007
Ten days ago the LibDems said all British troops should be out of Iraq by the end of October. It got them a few headlines and Ming Campbell attacked Tony Blair in Prime Minister’s Question Time. To me, it was the very worst kind of political headline grabbing stunt. US Preside...
The Tory Leadership Campaign Finally Comes to a Cloe
- 6 Dec 2006
In a few hours time new leader of the Conservative Party will be preparing for PMQs. Last night the Davis diehards held an end of campaign party to thank all those who had worked on the campaign. We held it at the campaign office in Victoria Street. Quite a number of MPs were ...
Guardian: Cameron is Right to Pitch for the Centre Ground
- 21 Nov 2006
The centre of power Despite Lord Saatchi's call for Conservatives to abandon the centre ground, David Cameron is wise to pitch his tent there. Lord Saatchi is without doubt a man with an enormous creative mind. His pamphlets for the Centre for Policy Studies are invariab...