6+ hour, 33+ min ago  (531+ words) Aberdeenshire " Peterhead South & Cruden SNP 742 (36. 5 per cent, -10. 0 on 2022) Reform UK 465 (22. 9 per cent, +22. 9 ) Conservatives 432 (21. 3 per cent, -20. 0) Independent 150 (7. 4 per cent, +7. 4) Independent 132 (6. 5 per cent, +6. 5) Lib Dems 56 (2. 8 per cent, -9. 4) Scottish Family Party 54 (2. 7 per cent, +2. 7) Figures for first preferences SNP gain from Conservatives Bolton " Horwich…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago  (490+ words) The Formula 1 mindset is 'how do we achieve being better than anyone else, in a timeframe that seems impossible, in a cost cap environment and then actually do actually do it. There's a lot we Conservatives, can learn from that…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (212+ words) Anne-Marie Trevelyan was Minister for Defence Procurement 2019-20 and Minister for the Indo-Pacific 2022-24. So when John Healey, our former Defence Secretary, felt he had no option but to resign, calling out his Prime Minister and Chancellor as unable and unwilling to…...

15+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1387+ words) The end of the beginning is beginning to end and there's a weird lull in the air. The Conservative party's story for the last two years may have had a different trajectory than that of our departing Prime Minister but…...

16+ hour, 13+ min ago  (518+ words) Rory Bremner is an impressionist, satirist and writer with a long career on stage and television." Some meetings in Parliament tell you more about the state of the country than weeks of speeches across the despatch box. Politicians arrived believing…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (204+ words) Kay Isa, is a Conservative Councillor in Chingford Green Ward, in Waltham Forest. As a Turkish Cypriot and a Conservative councillor with 27 years of Party membership, I find myself in a position that should be far more typical than it…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (259+ words) Rachel Reeves, in perhaps one of her last acts as Chancellor, has nominated Jonathan Haskel to be head of the OBR. A professor at Imperial Business School, former MPC member, and co-author of the excellent Capitalism Without Capital, he is…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (633+ words) Sir Keir Starmer cut a forlorn figure as he hung about yesterday on the station platform, waiting for the train which will carry him into exile in Kentish Town. It was difficult for the small party which had gathered to…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (367+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His Sub Stack is Joxley Writes. The death of Penelope Keith is the passing of a much-loved national treasure. As a Conservative, it also means the loss of perhaps one of our…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (958+ words) Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For more information on his work, visit lordashcroft. com I met President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi known as "Irro" in Jerusalem in a historic hotel where many great leaders…...