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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
The Conservatives are delighted to announce the defection of a leading Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets to the party.
Dr Anwara Ali, a Labour councillor in the borough since 2006, said her growing disillusionment with Labour and their failure to reform the NHS convinced her to join the Conservatives.
Commenting, Dr Anwara Ali said:
“I have been a [...]
Andrew Lansley has called on the Government to launch a full public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital, following the publication of the Francis report.
The Shadow Health Secretary said that the only way to finally eliminate the “culture of secrecy and fear” that pervaded the hospital was to look at the issues “with maximum [...]