The New Conservative Policy on Europe - What Really Happened

Iain Martin has an exclusive over at the Wall Street Journal.  He has been been handed a dodgy dossier which details the Conservative leadership’s fraught decision making process as they attempted to come up with the new policy. It is based on minutes of top secret meetings held in recent months and for historians offers a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the Tory high command.

Hague gets the Paxman treatment

William Hague doesnt want to answer questions about the “elephant in the room” - the tax status of Lord Ashcroft, the financier bankrolling the Conservative election campaign.  That’s despite Jeremy Paxman asking him a few times…