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Who holds the aces in the new ECR group?
I wonder how many of you stopped off at the European stand promoting our Conservative MEPs at the Conservative Party Conference and picked up a new set of playing cards featuring members of the recently formed ECR group? It’s a great way for everyone to get to know...
Alan Clark, the cad
I’m spending this evening at a book reading with Ion Trewin, author of Alan Clark, The Biography, and wondered if you had read it and recommended it. I did enjoy Edwina Currie’s review in The Times: Alan Clark never stopped himself doing something stupid if he...
Conservative Health Minister pledges boost to Alzheimer’s funding
Shadow Health Minister Stephen O'Brien's words were music to the ears of Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, when he pledged increased proportional funding for dementia research. He disclosed to the packed audience at a fringe meeting at...
The huge challenges for Alzheimer’s research
Alzheimer's research is a subject very close to my heart, so I was pleased to see it was included as a topic at one of the fringe meetings at the Conservative Party conferences. Prof Clive Ballard, Director of Research for the Alzheimer's Society, describes in this...
The race for SW Norfolk
I am delighted to learn that James Tumbridge has made it through to the final stage of the selection as Conservative parliamentary candidate for South West Norfolk. He stood in Ian Gibson’s seat in Norwich North in 2005 – recently won by Chloe Smith who makes her...
The Tories and The Times
Perhaps the editor of The Times had further damaging revelations about MPs expenses in mind when he refused to back the Tories in the same way as The Sun. There were whisperings all week at the Conservative conference about another expenses scandal which was going to...
Fixing our broken society
I was totally bowled over by this powerful video at the opening of the Conservative Party conference. What a great build up for Eric Pickles to walk on stage and address his "chums". It encapsulates everything that is wrong with our society today and why change is...
Did Manchester like us?
I was keen to know if holding the Conservative conference in Manchester had influenced local voters at all, whether they were more likely to support us. I very much doubt it. I asked a group of commuters at the tram station about this and it was impossible to gain any...
My YouTube of Guido on Cameron’s speech
I spotted Guido Fawkes - the man who claimed the scalps of Derek Draper and Damien McBride in the Smeargate scandal - as he left the Conservative conference and asked his views about David Cameron's speech. I finished by asking whether he would vote Conservative....