David Cameron hosted “transparency champions” from across the globe at 10 Downing Street last week. He’s lucky they aren’t British — because they would doubtless be wondering why the PM won’t reveal the corporate lobbying clients of his new advisers. Unlike other consultancies, the shadowy Tory lobbying company whose owners ran Boris Johnson’s mayoral campaign and now [...]

If Gordon Brown had a catchphrase it would be the wooden utterance — often delivered for the benefit of party activists or public sector workers — thanking them “for all that they do”. Signing a “G8 quilt” made by primary school children alongside Barack Obama today, Cameron seems to have tapped his predecessor for inspiration. [...]

As if his party management problems weren’t bad enough already, polling data on gay marriage is piling on the pain for David Cameron. A YouGov survey shows that marriage equality is winning out amongst supporters of the three major parties … but not with UKIP voters, where 62% are in opposition to the measure. In contrast with [...]