General Election 2015: the closest election for 40 years

Lord Ashcroft, whose commissioning and analysis of political opinion polls has transformed understanding of British politics, has published a most prescient piece on Conservative Home in which he predicts that the General Election in May 2015 will be the closest for...

Racism: the ebola of our national politics

  As pressure mounts on David Cameron’s Conservatives and Labour’s Ed Miliband to respond to the Ukip threat by ever more restrictive action on immigration, we should stop and think about the implications.   I personally, as a longstanding Conservative, am...