Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: Why the PM Needs Another PPS (or Two) & When Will The Speaker Go?
- 19 May 2017
If there is a Conservative landslide of anything like the scale most pundits seem to expect I think the Prime Minister will need to think very carefully about her relationship with Tory backbenchers. Dealing with 390 or 400 MPs is very different to dealing with 330. May I make...
ConHome Diary: The Electoral Commission Should Be Wound Up
- 13 May 2017
And so the CPS decided to take no further action against the 14 MPs the Electoral Commission fingered for allegedly filing inaccurate election expenses after the 2015 election. They’ve left Craig Mackinlay swinging in the wind, but I suspect he’ll be OK. I cannot imagine the C...
General Election 2017 Seat by Seat Predictions: 58: Kent
- 6 May 2017
Seats: 17 Current Political Makeup: Con 17 Predicted Political Makeup after June 8: Con 17 1. Ashford 2010 Result: Conservative: 29878 (54.1%) Labour: 9204 (16.7%) Lib Dem: 12581 (22.8%) Green: 1014 (1.8%) UKIP: 2508 (4.5%) MAJORITY: 17297 (31.3%) 2015 Result: Conservative...
ConHome Diary: The Conservative Party Should Obey David Cameron's Maxim That "Sunlight is the Best Form of Disinfectant"
- 5 May 2017
Like most of you I have been following Mark Wallace’s tweets on candidate selections with massive interest. This site originally made its name, back in 2004, in blowing the lid off the secrecy behind Conservative candidate selections. Thirteen years on CCHQ is still shrouded i...
ConHome Diary: Is Boris Really Being Hidden Away From the Electorate & Has Labour Bottomed Out?
- 28 Apr 2017
The very idea that Theresa May will seek to hide Boris Johnson away during the election is preposterous. I yield to no one in my admiration of the election coverage from The Times. It’s the one newspaper I buy every day. However, this week the paper seems to have developed som...
ConHome Diary: Where Were You When Theresa May Called the Election?
- 21 Apr 2017
It was one of those moments when you’ll always remember where you were when you heard the news. I was sitting in my car outside Wembley Stadium… But I’m getting ahead of myself. At just after 10am I was driving down the M11 from Norfolk when a news alert from Sky flashed up on...
ConHome Diary: In Defence of Boris & What Will the Local Elections Bring For Jezza?
- 14 Apr 2017
Boris Johnson has copped a lot of flak this week, unfairly so in my opinion. The media, and indeed some of his colleagues, have been waiting for him to commit a diplomatic howler ever since he was appointed Foreign Secretary back in mid-July. I was certainly not a founder memb...
ConHome Diary: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler
- 7 Apr 2017
Helen Szamuely, who died this week, wasn’t famous, but she should have been. She was a Brexiteer years before the word Eurosceptic was even invented. Her work in the broader Eurosceptic movement was vital to making the case for leaving the European Union. I first met her when ...
ConHome Diary: Amber & Boris, Sayeeda & Douglas & Keir Starmer's Mirror
- 31 Mar 2017
Listening to the BBC coverage of triggering Article 50 you’d think we were entering a period of national mourning. It started with the Today programme who relished interviewing anyone who had anything negative to say – and believe me, most of their carefully chosen guests did....
ConHome Diary: Terror in Westminster & Dreaming About Tim Shipman
- 24 Mar 2017
Steve Uncles is a name you probably won’t be familiar with. He has been a leading light in the English Democrats for a number of years, particularly in the south east, and has stood in a number of elections, including for Kent Police & Crime Commissioner and in the Europea...