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.

“Of course, everything that happens in the entire world nowadays is, somehow, bad news for Gordon Brown. All these face and hand transplants are going to play hell with ID cards.”
- comedian Frank Skinner

Dear John Harris,
Although it is not always easy to find a sensible and objective analysis of Labour policy on the Guardian website, you achieved this with the minimum of fuss in your Comment is Free article this morning.  Apart from political geeks like us, I suspect many people did not notice that on Tuesday this [...]

Dear James Purnell,
Where does this end?  We don’t have to wait more than a few weeks to hear of yet another government or government-contracted official carelessly losing the personal details of thousands, if not millions of people.  This time, a memory stick with user names and passwords for a government computer system was found in a pub [...]

Dear Keith Vaz,
It is always comforting to hear about a Labour MP who just tells it like it is, especially when the government is intent on spinning just about everything.  Unfortunately you didn’t quite reach the giddy heights of complete honesty, but credit for trying.  To my mind, it looks increasingly likely that ID cards [...]