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Michael Brown: Will this consensual approach win loyalty? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 December 2005

David Cameron's new consensual approach has also extended to his senior Shadow Cabinet appointments. By retaining George Osborne as shadow Chancellor, David Davis at the home affairs brief and Francis Maude as party chairman, Mr Cameron has done little to change the line-up announced by Michael Howard in May. Dr Liam Fox relinquishes his foreign affairs brief, taking on the defence portfolio to make way for the return of the former leader, William Hague.

Michael Brown: Why Cameron wants to delay Brown's succession Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 December 2005

The longer he remains as Chancellor, the more humble pie he will have to eat

Michael Brown: Bring back the politics of the pork barrel Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 November 2005

I told her I would be sacked if I could not persuade her to vote for the Government

Michael Brown: The shadow of Thatcher has been lifted Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 19 October 2005

This election marks a final break with the past. A new generation is taking over

Michael Brown: The outcome of this race is now much less certain Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 October 2005

Cameron or Clarke could sweep up the bulk of the 80 or so undeclared MPs

Michael Brown: This leadership race is now wide open Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 30 September 2005

There is no front-runner any more. Cameron, Davis and Clarke all have a chance

Michael Brown: Will the Tories transform the Liberal Democrats? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 September 2005

If Ken Clarke can dump the euro, could he not do the same over the electoral system?

Michael Brown: Clarke is an appealing candidate, but is he tainted by his role in 18 years of Tory rule? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 01 September 2005

A party under Ken's command will hand Gordon Brown the easiest weapon in the Labour armoury

Michael Brown: I see more foreign travel in Mr Blair's future Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 30 August 2005

The international stage presents a welcome opportunity to escape from the domestic agenda

Michael Brown: The toff factor might still determine who wins the Tory leadership contest Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 August 2005

They may dismiss David Davis as a northern oik, but he can attract wide support outside the party

Michael Brown: Where are parliament or our politicians in this crisis of confidence? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 August 2005

The truth is that Parliament has had no say in the methods employed by police forces

Michael Brown: Progress is not caring if a Tory leader is gay Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 June 2005

We fought for equal rights so that religion, sex and sexuality would ultimately be irrelevant

Michael Brown: My protégé, the Big Brother star Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 June 2005

He came to work for me as a teenage kid. Tory MPs nicknamed him 'Golly' behind my back

Michael Brown: Is Ken Clarke enjoying one last tease? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 02 June 2005

"But can Ken be fagged?" That is the question the Conservatives are asking of its big-cigar smoking beast in the Tory jungle as he teases them and the media about his leadership intentions. It is the most amusing irony that Kenneth Clarke, that most Europhile of Tories, should be cheering on the results of the French and Dutch referendums even more loudly than Bill Cash, the arch Tory Eurosceptic.

Michael Brown: Prepare for the nightmare scenario Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 May 2005

Reconciling the wishes of members with those of MPs has bedevilled all parties

Michael Brown: I know how losing MPs feel... but they will recover Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 May 2005

Life after The Commons

Michael Brown: Out in Hove: the candidate who could herald a fresh start for the Tory party Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 04 May 2005

It is universally agreed that all voters in Hove look up to Nicholas Boles, the 39-year-old Tory candidate, standing for Parliament for the first time. Given his towering height of 6ft 6ins, this is something not even his opponents can deny. He is good looking, openly gay, and the antithesis of the "Tory toff" his educational background (Winchester: Oxford First in PPE, and Harvard) might suggest.

Michael Howard must start sharing the limelight Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 20 April 2005

His colleagues are reduced to sitting, mostly mute, on chairs at the corner of the stage

So who is thinking what they're thinking? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 April 2005

Mr Howard's strategy is unlikely to take him to Downing Street, but it may yield 50 Labour seats

There is unexpected octane in the Tory tank Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 April 2005

The centrepiece of the Conservative promise on tax will appeal to earners feeling the pinch

Civil war will break out unless local activists have the final say Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 31 March 2005

I was still a member of the Arundel Young Conservatives when I entered the Scunthorpe Conservative Club on 16 March 1976 (the day Harold Wilson resigned) for my interview to become the prospective parliamentary candidate. I was not on the party's official list. There was a frightful fracas when the Central Office boffin informed the meeting that I was not "official". Knarled local party members objected, however, to their freedom to choose me being circumscribed by outsiders. Consequently, I got more votes than anybody did else thanks to the natural desire of party members to be bloody-minded. When the locals asked whether, if elected, I would obey the party whip I promised only that I would make it a principle always to vote against the party at least once a year.

It's not enough to be right - you have to be political Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 March 2005

There is a body of opinion that believes the published Tory proposals for tax cuts are actually quite modest

Michael Howard's tactics are winning headlines, but they won't win the election Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 March 2005

He will need to take care not to become the saloon-bar bore grumping about every nit-picking issue

Howard has chance to profit from this election stage-setter Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 17 March 2005

Michael Howard spotted immediately the blatant political nature of Gordon Brown's pre-election Budget. The Tory leader called it, correctly, the "vote now, pay later" budget. For all Mr Brown's implied claims that the election was the last thing on his mind, this was a budget to reclaim disillusioned votes - especially from pensioners whose propensity to attend the polling station is greater than any other group.

So will Labour candidates put a picture of a grinning Tony Blair on their leaflets? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 15 February 2005

I wonder if visits by the PM won't do more harm than good, given the way voters have fallen out of love with him
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