Cast your mind back 40 years, if you can, to a completely different political time. Shortly after becoming Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher urged party conference to: “Go out and join in the work of your Union. Go to its meetings, and stay to the end. Learn the Union’s rules as well as the Far Left know them.” Three years ago […]
If I were a Labour voter, I would be worried. Worried that it is unclear what we even stand for anymore. Worried that we no longer have a safety blanket of fifty Scottish MPs, worried that our once safe seats in the North are becoming Ukip hotspots. Worried that maybe we’re not tough enuss. But more than anything else, worried […]
With just one day to go before the British public cast their vote at the ballot box, the ground war is hotting up. James Downes examines the current state of the polls in looking at both vote and seat shares, before outlining the importance of campaigning for the Conservative Party on the final day of the election. The State of the […]
Parliament Street’s Head of Policy, Luke Springthorpe, welcomes the good news that real wages are rising- despite what Labour’s ‘cost of living’ campaign says. He argues that although such rises are great, we still need to see a sustained pick-up in productivity, for it to last. Despite the fact the UK has had economic growth that has ranked as the […]
This week Parliament Street’s Charlotte Kude met David Campbell Bannerman, Conservative member of the European Parliament for the East of England. A great supporter of the Commonwealth, he was born in India but has lived in the UK since childhood. After graduating from Edinburgh University with an MA (Honours) degree, he first worked for advertising agencies and public relations companies. He went […]
By Clare George-Hilley With a general election under two years away, Manchester 2013 will be remembered as a landmark conference, where the Conservative Party focussed not only on what it has to do for the country, but why it is doing it. In the conference hall and exhibition space, banners hung from the roof rafters reminding delegates of our record […]
Parliament Street Director Steven George-Hilley went on ITV’s Daybreak show at Conservative Party conference. George-Hilley was chatting about the threat posed by UKIP to the party. The interview was just one media slot of many at party conference by the Parliament Street team. Other interviews included discussions with the BBC and local radio shows. He told the breakfast show that the support for UKIP would fall […]
