Are the Tories going to live to regret trying to cover Lord Ashcroft’s back by questioning the tax status of a number of high profile Labour donors?
After last week’s news that Lord Ashcroft is a ‘non-dom’, the Tories were quick to accuse Labour of hypocrisy in accepting donations from their own allegedly non-domiciled supporters.
Ashcroft’s own [...]

Although its been widely reported that the Electoral Commission has ruled that the £5.1 million in donations that the Conservative Party received from Bearwood Corporate Services were made legally and within the rules set out by PPERA, very little has been said about the detail of its findings beyond noting that the Conservative Party were [...]

What better way could there be to start a new year at the Ministry than with a typically tawdry tale of statistics abuse featuring Nadine Dorries as supporting rent-a-gob and all brought to you, as ever, by the Daily Mail:
Teenage pregnancies triple in leafy suburbs in damning blow to Labour sex education campaign
Affluent middle-class areas [...]

Mmm, a curious thing seems to have happened over at Tory Home where, according to the Google Alert that dropped into my in-box earlier today, Tim Mongomerie seemed rather keen on the idea of Nadine Dorries joining Eric Pickles in being elevated to a position amongst the great and the good at CCHQ.
This is what [...]

Iain Dale’s touting his new weekly slot on Telegraph TV:
This is the first episode of DALE’S TOURS, my new weekly slot for TELEGRAPH TV, in which I go round the country talking to Tory activists, councillors and candidates. It’s part of the RIGHT ON programme. This week I talked to Donald Potter, chairman of Crewe [...]

It seems that no local election is complete without its rumours and suggestions of dubious political dealings and local skullduggery, and the current word on the local grapevine is that, in one ward in Sandwell, this upcoming election may do very nicely when it comes to fitting the bill.
The ward in question is Oldbury, which [...]

After Iain Dale’s endorsement of this rather pathetic and cheesy Boris-themed video…
I thought it time I gave him an example of how to really put a humorous political video mashup together and so, with no small amount of assistance from the might Jarvis Cocker and a touch of help from Riot Squad right at the [...]

It’s conservatives who’re making all the running in Britain’s burgeoning online political culture and leaving the left trailing in there wake, right?
No, not really – it’s just not that straightforward.
It is true that four of five most ’successful’ political blogs – measured in terms of readership – are right wing blogs; Guido, Iain Dale, Conservative [...]

For as long as I can remember it has been an axiom of British political culture that the Conservative Party considers itself to be the natural party of business and, in particular, the one true political friend of the small businessman, a view that I strongly suspect has its origins in the observations of the [...]

I can’t help but be amused by this ’story’ by Rob Wilson MP, from Tory Home.
Along with a freelance journalist, Sunjay Kakar, I took a stroll back through Ms [Jacqui] Smith’s recent political past and found that she has “form” when it comes to dissembling. In November 2004, Ms Smith made a statement to [...]