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.

“Lord Mandelson remains crucial to the fate of Labour – but his allegiance, as he argued yesterday, and has done for months, is to New Labour, not Old. Everything he does now is aimed at protecting the political project he nurtured into being. His sole aim is to ensure that New Labour is able to [...]

Dear readers,
Today your task is to decide which leader is in the biggest mess.  You get a choice of three!
1. Gordon Brown: As we all know, Geoff Hoon, the former Defence Secretary, and Patricia Hewitt, the former Health Secretary, have written to all Labour MPs calling for the leadership issue to be sorted out “once and for all” [...]

Dear Geoff Hoon,
Poor man.  This third runway at Heathrow was always going to be a delicate matter, but yesterday you got a taste for the ferocity of opposition to the project in the House of Commons.  Interestingly, the Conservative Party are probably the least of your worries on this matter.  The fact that 140 MPs [...]

Dear Geoff Hoon,
Seeing as your legacy as Defence Secretary consisted of failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the cost of thousands of innocent lives and British service personnel, you presumably saw Transport Secretary as a fairly cushy number.  What you obviously didn’t realise was that your incompetence could still be very damaging in your [...]

Dear Geoff Hoon,
Nice try.  Honestly, what a load of rubbish.  I’ve heard some lame defences in my time but you really have taken the biscuit with your weak and flailing attempt to spare your party embarrassment over the note you sent to Keith Vaz.  I wonder whether either of you will be packing your bags [...]

Dear Geoff Hoon,
I wonder what it must be like for a Labour cabinet member to witness his government fall apart at the seams.  After the incredible retreats on non-doms, capital gains tax and the 10p tax rate, one wonders what credibility the government has left (if any).  And now, faced with the prospect of defeat in the [...]