Tag Archives: Conservatives

Five reasons conservatives should support gay marriage

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 5, 2013

There are some very good reasons why conservatives should back gay marriage. Left Foot Forward has come up with five.

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Clegg: “Dishonest, hypocritical” Labour behaving like a party “not serious about government”

By Shamik Das | Published: November 1, 2012

Nick Clegg today attacked Labour for their “dishonest, hypocritical” decision to vote with the Tory EU rebels last night, reports Shamik Das.

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Con 2012: What does Jeremy Hunt have in store for the NHS?

By Guest | Published: October 9, 2012

Debbie Abrahams MP, PPS to the shadow health secretary Andy Burnham and chair of the PLP health committee, looks at what Jeremy Hunt has in store for the NHS.

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Policy Exchange owes the North an apology

By Neil Foster | Published: October 8, 2012

As long as Policy Exchange advocate and promote policies to the clear detriment of Northerners, and do not apologise for the past, they won’t deserve a hearing.

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Cameron’s Corkers: Exposing the PM’s miscellany of untruths and u-turns

By Left Foot Forward | Published: October 7, 2012

Today, Left Foot Forward launches a new website, Cameron’s Corkers – cameronscorkers.org – chronicling the untruths and u-turns of Tory leader David Cameron.

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Polls cast pall over Cameron and Osborne as Tory conference begins

By Shamik Das | Published: October 7, 2012

As the Conservative Party Conference begins in Birmingham today, the latest polls provide the grimmest of backdrops for David Cameron and George Osborne.

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Comment: This government just doesn’t understand the North

By Kevin Meagher | Published: October 5, 2012

Following the appointment of Dr Tim Leunig, Kevin Meagher writes about how the coalition government – Lib Dems as well as Tories – don’t understand the North.

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The Tories are struggling with vagueness of policy

By Carl Packman | Published: July 31, 2012

All present gave a thumbs up to Big Society, but when asked whether the name was quite right most turned their thumbs down

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Tory tantrums: Backbenchers on the warpath over Hunt and Lords reform

By Ben Phillips | Published: June 18, 2012

After the Liberal Democrats abstained from last week’s vote on referring Jeremy Hunt over breaches of the Ministerial Code, the Tories prepare to strike back.

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The two graphs that show why the Tories are not trusted on the NHS

By Daniel Elton | Published: June 12, 2012

“The proportion of people saying they were satisfied with the way the NHS is run has fallen from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per cent last year – the biggest drop recorded since the survey began almost 30 years ago.

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