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Another event in the South East! My friends at Guildford CF will be hosting a Q&A session with Rt. Hon. Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Defence. The event will be taking place on Friday 14th December at 7pm in Cranleigh. Tickets are £10. If you would like further details, please contact Guildford CF’s [...]

In a change to the previously publicised line up, the Epsom & Ewell Conservative Association will now be hosting not one but two Cabinet ministers! The Rt. Hon. Maria Miller MP will join Epsom & Ewell’s very own Chris Grayling MP on November 9th in Banstead. Tickets can still be purchased through Mole Valley, Epsom [...]

I have often been accused of having a babyface. While I do look young for my age (or so I’ve been told!) it has come to my attention that there are others within the CF movement that are more deserving of the “babyface” title. Most of my CF friends joined the Party round about the [...]

Mole Valley, Epsom & Ewell CF invite you to the Epsom & Ewell Conservative Association Annual Dinner on Friday 9th November at Cuddington Golf Club in Banstead. For a limited time tickets are only £35 when you book through their Eventbrite page. Further details can be found here. Daniel Hannan MEP will be the guest [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Surrey is home to yet another new CF branch. East Surrey Conservative Future will be holding its launch event on Friday 21st September at Surrey National Golf Club in Chaldon. It will be a black tie event with welcome drinks, a three-course dinner and an after party. Emma Pidding, Chairman [...]

As Gossip Tory’s South East I shall be delving  a little deeper into CF and Conservatism in the region. My first Spotlight on the South East article focuses on Surrey, my home county. Surrey is home to two newly formed and innovative CF branches: Guildford; and Mole Valley, Epsom & Ewell. Here I chat to [...]

This week 658,000 16 year olds received their GCSE results. For the first time since these exams were introduced the number of exams passed at grades A*-C has decreased. As someone who works in secondary education, I do not share the fury many teachers are directing at Michael Gove. Whether or not political pressure was [...]

Today Surrey was the host county for the London 2012 Olympic Cycle Road Race. Although the result was disappointing for Team GB, the event was a spectacle to behold. I live between Leatherhead and Mickleham, part of the Box Hill circuit that the male cyclists completed a staggering 9 times. The atmosphere was great and [...]

Today David Gauke, a Treasury minister, has said that paying tradesmen with cash is “morally wrong”. This comes only weeks after David Cameron accused Jimmy Carr of behaving in an “immoral” fashion by using a tax avoidance scheme. Seven years ago we had an extension built and I distinctly remember my Dad withdrawing the maximum [...]