Chris Kelly and the young game cockerel: caption contest
The Conservative MP for the seat of Dudley South is the millionaire heir to the Keltruck haulage fortune, Chris Kelly. After barely two months in Parliament, he took the opportunistic photo...
View ArticleHow the mighty are fallen
by Tom Harris Annabel Goldie is a nice woman. She is intelligent, likeable and formidable in almost perfect proportion. And it is a cruel irony that only in a pre-devolution era could Annabel ever have...
View ArticleIs Batman really a conservative?
by Anthony Painter Robert Colville argues zestfully that Batman is a conservative in this morning’s Telegraph. My first reaction was that it’s a strange type of conservative that so flagrantly...
View ArticleWhat if the conservatives move…left?
by Joe Reddington Let us consider the popular (and backed by the data) narrative. Large numbers of former conservative voters are ‘defecting’ to UKIP, which they believe better represents their views....
View ArticleThe Conservative view: There’s no doubt, Liz Kendall is the candidate that...
by Matthew Plummer Life since our epic victory on May 8th has been a bit like recovering from Christmas lunch – having gorged myself on Christmas pudding, goose (of course) and canvassing I’ve been...
View ArticleWhat, if anything, could Labour learn from Canada’s Liberals?
by Frazer Loveman The election results came in and the nation’s main left wing party, one that had held power for much of the 1990s and early 21st century was humiliated, defeated again by a...
View ArticleIf the Tories are to be beaten, Labour and the Lib Dems need to start working...
by George Kendall 2015 was a disaster for the centre-left. The Liberal Democrats lost a swathe of seats to the Tories. Moderate Labour members lost their party to the far left. Some are in despair, and...
View ArticleElection 1997 20th anniversary: Fear and loathing in Conservative Central Office
In a series of pieces, Uncut writers look back at election day 1997. Mark Stockwell was a staffer at Conservative Central Office. Twenty-odd points behind in the polls. Divided, discredited, and...
View ArticleHas Corbyn’s elastic stretched as far as it can?
by John Wall Although the dust from the general election is yet to settle and there is much ink still to be spilt it’s clear that, despite the claims of the Corbynistas, Project Corbyn has reached its...
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