Labour and the Conservatives need to reach out to the ordinary voter
Policy Exchange’s David Skelton argues Labour and the Tories need to reconnect with the ordinary voter, and lays out policies which could make it happen.
Conservatives
Two weeks after ‘fixing’ it, Cameron creates a new “women problem”
Alex Hern writes about the coalition’s plans to slash maternity leave, and the coalition’s wider problems with female voters.
Osborne’s economic policy is to stick his head in the sand
Emily Thomas explains why the government’s continued reticence to ‘lend’ money is deeply worrying for the UK’s economic recovery.
Roger Helmer MEP steps down. He will not be missed
Alex Hern covers the resignation of Roger Helmer MEP, and reminds everyone what a terrible, rotten, nasty, bigoted man he is.
One Tory is tired of being in the nasty party
Alex Hern looks at Nick Boles’s claims the Conservatives have lurched to the right, and his policy prescriptions to solve it.
Cameronism uncovered: Taxpayer-funded big business
David Cameron sits at the junction of a big-spending State and big business, writes Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
When will the coalition deliver on its pledge to end child detention?
Ministers have twice promised to end child detention and twice failed. When will they come good on thier promises?
Grassroots Lib Dems: The current bill dismantles the NHS
The Social Liberal Forum calls for a clearer duty to provide on behalf of the health minister, a curbing of the national commissioning baord to promote choice, making GP consortia more accountable and the retention of the cap on private treatment.
Even Tory voters want cuts to be temporary
A large majority of the general public – and a slim majority of Tory voters, do not want to see the size of the state shrink and cuts to be reversed at some point
Climate sceptic Tory MEPs will send us sleepwalking towards disaster
David Cameron’s pledge to spur the EU into taking tougher climate action was dealt a massive blow today when Tory MEPs helped kill off emissions cut proposals.