Gary Gibbon
I’m not sure whether blue-collar workers do a lot of desk banging when they welcome people into the room, but that’s how Tory ministers decided to welcome David Cameron into the Cabinet room for his mission statement to serve working people. Mr Cameron said the Tories would become “the real party of working people.” He…
Gary Gibbon
Men are still overly represented in the post-reshuffle government – but that’s not what it feels like to some grumbling Tory males around Westminster.
Critics say Fobties are highly addictive, and certainly I found it very compulsive when I played on a machine a couple of years ago (fortunately I wasn’t gambling with my own money).
Tory leaders have repeatedly failed to conduct proper due diligence when hiring people they think will turn the party’s fortunes around.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron has once again denied that Lynton Crosby lobbied him over the packaging of plain cigarettes. Does the prime minister assume Crosby is perfectly capable of wearing two hats?
The problem for those around David Cameron is that they want Lynton Crosby’s election skills – not his ideological baggage. But can the Conservatives get the tactics and strategy without the politics?