Articles tagged Telegraph Column:
Telegraph Column: Will Ken Clarke Deliver?
- 6 Jul 2007
This week’s launch of Ken Clarke’s Democracy Task Force paper on parliamentary reform will go some way to dispelling the myth that Cameron’s Conservatives are policy-lite. As the rest of the policy groups prepare to announce their conclusions over the next seven weeks they wil...
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: The Clunking Fist Takes Aim
- 28 Jun 2007
Having spent the early part of the week making the LibDems chase their tails, Gordon Brown’s clunking fist was yesterday aimed squarely at the Tories. Last week David Cameron was in two minds about carrying out a wide ranging reshuffle. His instinct is not to do so, bu...
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: The Grammar School Fiasco
- 24 May 2007
Successful politicians are not only able to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear but can also take advantage of unexpected opportunities which come their way. And so it has proved with the Great Grammar School farrago which has dominated the last week of Tory politics. ...
Telegraph Column: How Gordon Brown WilL Dominate the Agenda
- 10 May 2007
The next two months will be dominated by one man – Gordon Brown. For the Conservatives it will be like going back to 1997 when no one, not even their mothers, wanted to hear from them. The media will ignore their every word, no matter how relevant, on the mark or controversial...
Telegraph Column: Cameron & the Women's Vote
- 26 Apr 2007
Here’s something for Polly Toynbee to ponder on. It’s a startling fact that if women had never had the vote Britain would have had a continuous Labour government since 1945. Whenever the Conservatives have won an election the women’s vote has been crucial. At the last election...
Telegraph Column: Cameron & Devolution
- 12 Apr 2007
John Major is rarely seen as a visionary, but in the case of Scottish and Welsh devolution he was ahead of his time. During the last, desperate days of the 1997 election campaign he made an impassioned plea for voters to vote Conservative to save the Union. It was a call which...
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...
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...