Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear Derek Conway,
I really thought that I’d heard the last of you but you just can’t keep out of the headlines.  Not only have you heaped shame on the Conservative Party, you still appear to be struggling with the notion that you have done anything wrong.  Like almost every politician, your first instinct is to [...]

28th January 2008: Mr Conway was suspended from the Commons for 10 days and ordered to return £13,161 of the money he paid his son.   A Commons standards committee said there was no record of Freddie, a student, doing work at Westminster in return for £40,000 of taxpayers’ money.  The committee report, which said Freddie was [...]

Dear Derek Conway,
I am genuinely disheartened by the events of the last 24 hours with regard to your abuse of taxpayers’ money.  Anyone who thought that the Conservatives were immune from scandals of their own was clearly living in a dreamland, but for a senior MP to show such disregard for MP’s expenses and to [...]