Can CF Learn from the Mensch Resignation?

Lord Tebbit has written a very thoughtful piece for The Daily Telegraph on the surprise resignation of Louise Mensch from the House of Commons.  However much one may want to sympathise with Mrs. Mensch, it is difficult to disagree with Tebbit when he writes: It is the apparently casual attitude of Mrs Mensch towards the [...]

Parliament Street

Dear Gossip Tory readers, My name is Matthew Gass and I am writing today to invite you to the launch of Parliament Street, a new membership based right-of-center think tank at the St Stephen’s Club on Thursday May 31st. We are aimed at providing a platform for ideas from young members of the Conservative grassroots. [...]

Young Labour In Disgrace

Chairman of Teesside Young Labour, Thomas Robinson, has resigned after making a series of highly-offensive and homophobic comments to a 13 year-old girl on Twitter last night. Mr Robinson, who was responsible for Young Labour in six Teesside constituencies, announced last night that he would resign from position and apologised to the young girl from [...]

Community conservativism answer to winning in the north?

This week I’ve seen several debates and discussions around the make up of the Conservative Party, the “Southern Focus” and lack of breakthrough in the UK’s big Northern cities. A lot of the reasons for the party having no Councillors or MPs in cities like Liverpool are historic, built through lack of trust resulting from [...]