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.

“Today’s Liberal Democrats are an Ikea party, cobbled together overnight on the bedroom floor and rarely upright in one place for more than a week. Vince Cable wants the banks bailed out by the government, but only sort of. Paddy Ashdown wants Afghanistan saved from the Taliban “if it can be done properly”. The party [...]

“So-called liberal interventionism is a will-o’-the-wisp, a vapid, feel-good refashioning of foreign policy in response to a headline event, motivated by self-interest or passing mood. We should send food to the starving of Zimbabwe because that is something we can do, however much Mugabe distorts the supply. But as for dreaming of toppling him, those [...]

Dear Simon Jenkins,
Congratulations on a superb piece in The Sunday Times.  A lot has been said and continues to be said about the war in Iraq, but your article was a very calm and collected evaluation of the ‘options’ left for America.  I very much agree with your belief that no comparisons can be drawn between Iraq and [...]