The ten things you need to know on 16 June 2013... 1) 'DEEPLY UNSAVOURY, DANGEROUS AND EXTREMIST' Speaking on the Murnaghan show on Sky News thi...

It is clear that the SNP's version of independence is not full independence and that could be detrimental to Scotland. The report supported by the Scottish government to retain the same welfare set-up with the UK has been the latest report to exemplify this point.

Speaking as a Conservative, the next election is ours to lose. If it means holding our noses... then so be it. Every Conservative has a duty to knuckle down and follow our leader. If we do that, there is every chance that come 2020, the United Kingdom (and it will still be united) will be prosperous and free

David Cameron is in a worse position as Conservative Party leader than John Major was even at the height of the former prime minister's Europe trouble...

The ten things you need to know on Monday 20 May 2013... 1) PUTTING A SMILE ON NIGEL'S FACE The 'loongate' controversy is really starting to hur...

My argument was that all of the likely election outcomes in 2015, the least likely was an overall Tory victory that would enable him to remain in Downing Street. Now, though, I'm beginning to think his downfall could come even sooner.

For a democracy to work there has to be a way to hold politicians to their words. That has long been the job of elections. If one party doesn't do the people's will, throw them out and elect another.

John Major's former press secretary says the EU row engulfing David Cameron has "depressing" echoes of the 1990s. Sheila Gunn urged Tory rebels to ...

David Cameron has hit out at his anti-EU ministers as the ghost of John Major returned to haunt his premiership. The prime minister dismissed comme...

Education Secretary Michael Gove says he would vote to quit the European Union if a referendum was held tomorrow. Gove said life outside the EU wou...

Scottish politics has not, thus far, swung towards the scapegoating UKIP and BNP politics of hatred. We should be asking why Murray, Smart and even McConnell and Murphy seem to wish it to do so?

The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 8 May 2013... 1) A MODEST SPEECH FROM HER MAJESTY From the Times: "The Queen will open a new ses...

From a campaigning perspective big donations will always be welcome, but they alone can't ensure victory. The polls have been static on independence for some time, but with 18 months to go it's still all to play for.

As the debate in Scotland rumbles on the SNP and the wider YES campaign are promoting the message that the only way to get change is to vote YES, and that the union is stubborn and impossible to reform without splitting it in its entirety. It's a widespread view, and it usually only takes a few minutes of debating devolution in cyber space before someone gives you the 'jam tomorrow' line, but is it really true?

The legacy of the referendum will be much more difficult to predict than the voting itself. For the Falkland Islanders, they have both reaffirmed the status quo but also prepared the ground for possible future referenda, which might one day include independence as an option.

As an Australian who has been living in London for 10 years, I feel I have gained what I consider to be an important outsider's perspective.

Scotland's position in the United Kingdom has come under scrutiny as the government publishes legal opinion ahead of next year's independence referend...

David Cameron has defended the United Kingdom as the government prepares to put the "facts" about Scottish independence to the public. The implicat...

We NIMBYs have plenty of reasons for objecting to the London-Birmingham High Speed Rail Link. It cuts a motorway-wide swathe through 150 designated nature sites, including ten SSIs and four nature reserves, without adequate consultation.

In Europe and Britain, if we are to accept the line from London that the UK is a political union of equals then the UK has to accept that it can only move so far and so fast as is agreed by all of its members. Isn't that the very essence of subsidiarity? The arguments for staying part of the EU - certainly with steps to make it more efficient and more responsive to the diverse needs of European regions - are more clear-cut here in Wales than as seen in England. On balance we in Wales would probably prefer to stay put.