The last 24 hours have been rather news-heavy, with the two big stories being Europe and this morning the Kelly Report.
I’ve written numerous pieces on expenses, so I will deal with that in due course, but suffice to say, I have been banging on about ending the Communications Allowance and having a rental allowance for so long, that I am feeling somewhat vindicated in the positions I took.
More fundamental and important is the question of Britain in Europe. I understand that David Cameron will be making an announcement at 4pm, so I deliberately wanted to make my opinions clear before then, rather than just writing out another reactive piece after the fact.
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A lot has been written about the potential move to women-only shortlists for Conservative seats selecting in the new year. Because of the unusually high churn in seats caused by the expenses scandal, it is likely that some of these seats will be “safe” Conservative seats or ultra-marginals that we could be expected to win.
This would result in an automatic increase in the number of women MPs on the Conservative benches if the actual General Election results reflect our current poll ratings.
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Published at September 9, 2009
in Conservative news, Conservatives, Deregulation, Elections, Freedom of speech and civil liberties, ID cards, Local Services, Local government, NEWS -, POLITICS -, TOPICS -, Tax, Terrorism, The Economy, The environment and Uncategorized.
Conservative Home have just put up a post, asking the “10 Big Questions” any incoming Conservative Government will need to consider after the next election.
I, for my part, hope to be part of that Government, so will do my best to answer those questions here and now.
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The summer bank holiday is over and slowly we’re creeping towards the most important party conference season of this Parliament. For this will be the last conference for each of the parties before the next General Election, so each will be using their time to set out their stalls for the forthcoming campaign.
Members of each of the parties will be in anticipation for what the “big theme” will be for each of their party’s campaigns, although the bets are that the economy will obviously dominate.
So what should that of the Conservatives be?
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Published at July 3, 2009
in Armed Forces, Conservative news, Conservatives, Crime, Deregulation, EU, Education, Fulwell & Hampton Hill, Hampton, Hampton North, Hampton Wick, Health, Heathfield, IN YOUR AREA -, Local Services, Local government, NEWS -, POLITICS -, South Twickenham, St Margarets & North Twickenham, TOPICS -, Tax, Teddington, The Economy, The environment, Transport, Twickenham Riverside, West Twickenham and Whitton.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to participate in a special survey conducted by the editors of Conservative Home for PPCs in target seats. The results of the key policy questions have now been published on the site here.
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