In Britain, the Conservatives are gathering for their final pre-election conference enjoying huge poll leads over the ruling Labour Party. David Cameron has reinvented his party by focusing on education, welfare, and the role that charities and voluntary groups can play in the provision of public services.  more

Last week, British Conservative leader David Cameron attended a gay pride event and apologized for his party’s previous hostility to homosexuals. Unlike today’s GOP, whose leaders seem uncomfortable with the concept of evolution, Cameron knows that defeated parties must adapt or die.   more

Republicans have been quick to recognize the practical benefits of technology, but slow to grasp its political implications. Amidst a backdrop of dizzying technological change, British Conservatives floundered, while the GOP used sophisticated programs to target voters and win elections with ruthless efficiency. But now a younger generation of Tories perceives that new online methods   more

Six months on from their election defeat, nobody is quite sure who leads the Republican Party. Across the Atlantic, British Conservatives have no doubt who is in charge. David Cameron has turned what should be an embarrassing scandal involving MPs’ expenses into another opportunity to demonstrate his ruthlessness, boldness, and single-minded determination to gain power.   more

As American conservatives struggle to find a new identity, British Conservatives have succeeded in defining theirs. A poll conducted just before Gordon Brown became Prime Minister showed that Conservative leader David Cameron enjoyed a 14 point lead in response to the question of who is “greener.”
By now, the story of Cameron’s green rebranding is familiar   more

David Cameron’s British Conservative Party has placed radical prison reform at the heart of its compassionate agenda, and is enjoying double-digit opinion poll leads.  The Bush Administration largely abandoned not only its popular early rhetoric to improve prison conditions, but also its key insight that government agencies cannot solve social problems or dictate morality.  It   more