Alan Duncan is a member of the shadow Justice team as shadow minister for prisons and probation.
Prison reform by reducing reoffending is an area where a changed Conservative Party intends to make a massive difference.
Some progress has been made in the last thirteen years, but still our prisons are on the brink of crisis. The [...]
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Alan Duncan MP: A Conservative Government would not only reform prisons but also address the underlying causes of our broken society which lead people to offend in the first place
Nick Clegg fears Liberal Democrats will split if he backs minority Tory government
Nick Clegg may keep labour in power – ONLY the Conservatives will end Labour rule!
In his Saturday column Peter Oborne lists three reasons why Nick Clegg is likely to manoeuvre his party into a deal with Labour if there is a hung parliament:
“Clegg has discovered (rather to his personal dismay) that most of his party [...]
Guess what? The unions are spending more in the marginals than the Conservatives
This from Ian Kirby, the News of the World’s Political Editor (my emphasis):
“A highly confidential operation being run by Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, is far bigger than the Tories’ own £3m marginal seats campaign. The union is using it’s own massive datatbase of members in a bid to persuade dithering former Labour voters [...]
Good government costs less with the Conservatives – David Cameron
Rt Hon David Cameron MP,
Saturday, March 6 2010
It’s great to be back in Wales. It’s four years since I first addressed this conference. Back then we were just a footnote in Welsh politics. And just look at what we’ve done since then.
We’ve won council seats in Denbighshire, in Powys, in Pembrokeshire. We’re running councils in [...]
Conservatives launch iPhone app – Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary
The Conservative Party has today launched a General Election iPhone app for activists and voters.
Available to download for free on the Apple App Store, the tool will help supporters keep up to date with the latest news from the campaign trail.
Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary and Spokesman for Online Campaigning, said “once again, the Conservative Party [...]
Dan Hannan calls for a return to sanity in the public finances and a revolutionary dispersal of power at the Brighton Tea Party
It was standing room only at the Boston Brighton Tea Party organised by the Freedom Association early this evening at which Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to “bring sanity and order back to the public finances” an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes.
He [...]
Conservatives hold last conference before the election
The Conservative Party has held the first day of its Spring Forum – the party’s last conference before the General Election.
George Osborne, William Hague and Andrew Lansley were amongst those addressing supporters in Brighton.
The Conservatives have also launched a leaflet setting out the choices facing people at this election.
Click here to download the leaflet (in PDF format), [...]
Labour have failed to get a grip on immigration – Damian Green
Damian Green has accused the Government of allowing immigration to run “out of control” following new evidence published by the Home Office.
The Shadow Immigration Minister was commenting on figures that lay bare the extent to which the Labour Government has failed to get a grip on the level of immigration in the UK.
The Home Office [...]