Paul Linford

Originally posted on my Facebook page on the day after David Cameron stepped down as PM and Theresa May took the carving knife to his Cabine...

Two things are holding the new Lib-Con coalition government together. The first is liberalism, economic and social. The second is a mutual ...

More on the Tories' week in Manchester in tomorrow's weekly column.

I've not written anything thus far over the big issue gripping the Tories at the moment, namely the potential return of Ken Clarke to th...

David Davis says he feels vindicated over the government's decision to scrap its absurd plan to detain terror suspects for 42 days - on...

No, says Iain Dale , who as Davis's close friend and former campaign manager probably knows more than most. But I'm not so sure. As...

David Davis's shock decision to resign from the Commons and fight a by-election over 42-day detention is, ostensibly at least, designed...

Like Iain Dale I thought last night's BBC4 documentary by Michael Portillo on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher was a riveting watch. T...

The list of prominent Tory casualties at the 1997 general election has become the stuff of political legend, culminating of course in the sh...

Following on from the previous post...a number of posters on Iain Dale's Diary today have posed the question whether the former Tory mi...

A little later than usual...but here's my weekend Column in which I give my reflections on the Derek Conway affair.

Although Tory MP Derek Conway is clearly in the wrong over his generous taxpayer-funded payments to a family member - he is by no means the ...

Sir John Major is spot-on with his comments about the difference between Tory sleaze in the 1990s and Labour sleaze now. And rather than b...

Fraser Nelson spent most of this article in the Spectator assessing the state of the Brown premiership, but in a revealing throwaway paragr...

I am pleased to see that the blogfather himself Iain Dale has now joined http://broganblog.dailymail.co.uk/2007/10/rebuttal-recons.html...

My weekly column today looks ahead to the new political season and in particular at the task facing David Cameron as he attempts to claw bac...

I raised a few hackles among readers of this blog a few weeks' back for daring to criticise Boris Johnson, so I was interested to read a...

The reaction from the opposition has been predictable, but I'm afraid the Tories are right about this one. Inheritance Tax should go, o...

One of the very best books ever published about the decline and fall of the Tories between 1992 and 1997 was Guilty Men , written by Hywel W...

Some interesting speculation on the Tory blogosphere over the last couple of days over whether David Davis is now becoming David Cameron...