As luck would have it, Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps fired his latest salvo at Labour, focusing on the fact that they weren't coming up with new policies, on the very same morning that Ed Balls decided to announce his plans to scrap winter fuel payments to well-off...

The sensible advice to the Tories after Eastleigh is, of course, 'don't panic'. The problem, however, is they already have. Indeed, they've been panicking about Ukip for well over a year now - which is precisely why they've ended up in this mess in the first place. And...

The Conservative Party is no longer divided on Europe - and that is part of its problem. In the 1990s, there were still a fair few Tory MPs who, while they weren't exactly Europhiles, nevertheless saw in the EU an opportunity rather than a threat, or at the very least...