Watch what Theresa May told George Osborne when she sacked him. For all future party leaders, I have a bit of advice for you, be nice to the people you meet on the way up, because you’ll eventually meet them on the way down, when you need them the most. Just watch the video above where George Osborne tells us what Mrs May told him when she sacked him last July. Instead of having a very good and loyal ally,…
https://twitter.com/davies_will/status/870618761887453184 Mrs May needs not only a Willie, but also a Sir Keith Joseph If Mrs May wants to emulate the success of Mrs Thatcher, I’ve said before she needs a Willie, but assuming Mrs May wins a majority on Thursday, what this campaign has exposed is that she needs better support and advisers, as ‘the vision thing’ is lacking, as exemplified by the disastrous announcement of the social care changes that led many opponents to characterise it as a…
Sun Will TMay get her landslide or could the result be a lot tighter? The launching of the Conservative manifesto on Thursday has changed the whole narrative of this election. From a situation where the only real outcome that appeared possible was a very substantial Conservative majority, certainly more than 100, we now have the first post manifesto polls with the gap closing sharply. It was very bold of the Prime Minister and her team to include items within the…
when someone brings up something you did last night pic.twitter.com/4tG2UdUt7B — Esther Webber (@estwebber) May 17, 2017 @iainmartin1 They look like one of those Tory couples in the 1990s snapped at the garden gate after the minister's been in the News of the World — Patrick Kidd (@patrick_kidd) May 17, 2017 What was scheduled to be a Conservative event to attack the LAB manifesto has set off all sorts of speculation about the Chancellor, Philip Hammond. Theresa May was asked…
Dealing with historic CON “nasty party” perceptions We are not hearing the name Lynton Crosby much at the moment but he is playing the central role in the massive resurgence of the Conservatives that we are currently seeing. He is very much a research-based campaigner and takes a lot of notice about the polls and detailed voter profiling that he is so good at. At GE2015 his masterstroke was to exploit the fears that an EdM LAB government would be…
The blue team taking precautionary measures in case of possible by-elections? Last week there were a number of stories sparked off first by George Eaton in the New Statesman about a series of private Crosby Textor polls that the Tories are said to have commissioned in many of the 27 seats that were gained from the LDs at GE2015. The reported polling results suggested that the Tories would struggle to hold onto all but a small handful of them. The…
Why the nomination for Yorkshire’s Tory MEP will be a key test Prime ministers are inevitably remembered for their great achievements and their great failings: Attlee’s welfare state, Thatcher’s Falklands, Thatcher’s Poll Tax, Blair’s Iraq, and so on. Theresa May’s first ministry will be defined by the success or failure of Brexit. If it’s a failure, her first ministry will be her only one. But beneath the towering achievements and epic failures, governments leave a much broader legacy in the…
Whatever the political fireworks will begin It has been an awful long time coming but we are promised that the long awaited decision on the expansion of Heathrow will come tomorrow. It’s reported that TMay and other ministers on the airport subcommittee will meet before cabinet. It is being speculated that we could get an announcement before the markets open because it is felt that this is so politically sensitive. Theresa May herself will make a Commons statement at 12.30….