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How we came about and who we are

ConservativeIntelligence.com formed in June 2009, with an election looming there was high demand for good quality information and intelligence on the Conservative Party. The team behind the highly regarded ConservativeHome.com felt they were in a position to provide the best possible profiles, insights and policy analysis on the Conservative Party, it grew from there.

The Team

The Director of ConservativeIntelligence is Tim Montgomerie. A former Chief of Staff to Iain Duncan Smith and co-founder of the Centre for social Justice, he launched ConservativeHome in 2005. Tim’s key areas of expertise are the economy, compassionate conservatism, the Big Society, US politics and foreign affairs.

Paul Goodman was MP for Wycombe from 2001 until 2010, when he chose to step down. During his time as an MP he served on the Work and Pensions, Treasury and Local Government frontbench teams. A former Comment Editor of The Telegraph his specialist areas of interest include local government, community cohesion, public service reform, security and Parliament.

ConservativeIntelligence.com through a weekly intelligence letter includes three main products: The Leading Article; which includes commentaries on major policy areas or strategic choices facing the party and government. Political Profile; a detailed profile of key movers and shakers within the Conservative Party, including government advisers, MP’s and outside influencers. Essential Reading List; a selection of stories and articles that are ‘must reads’ for any person wanting to understand the Conservative Party. A subscriber to ConservativeIntelligence.com will not miss anything important.

ConservativeIntelligence.com can do this because the team behind it are – not to put too fine a point on it – obsessive about the Conservative Party. The editorial team, headed by Tim Montgomerie (Director of CI), has been running ConservativeHome.com for the last four years. They get up at 6.00am each and every day to ensure, that three hours later, the website is a daily must-read for MPs, journalists and Tory grassroots members. The CI team knows every member of the shadow cabinet, every parliamentary candidate, every leading member of the Conservative machine.

With ConservativeIntelligence.com, the ConservativeHome team supported by account managers and researchers will translate this unrivalled knowledge into products that will be useful for anyone interested in understanding the Conservative Party and the Conservative government.

For more information on the work we do or to sign up to become a member please email contact@conservativeintelligence.com.

From the Conservative Intelligence member's site

The Biggest Ideas on the Centre Right Roundtable

ConservativeIntelligence will be hosting a breakfast for Silver and Dining Club members. Our guest speakers will be Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Neil O’Brien of Policy Exchange and Gavin Poole of the Centre for Social Justice. Please put the date in your diary and further details will follow soon.

A Few Short Articles…..

THE NHS BILL: Some of you may have noticed that I caused a bit of a media fuss ten days ago when I argued that the Coalition should drop the Health and Social Care Bill (http://conho.me/wB4Gij). I certainly wasn’t expecting my advice to be heeded and it hasn’t been. The Government ploughs on in the teeth of public opposition, holding seminars on the reforms which exclude the major representatives of NHS staff. Anyway I’m not wanting to continue my mini-campaign here.

This Week’s Curtain-Raiser For The Battle For The ’22

The victory of George Hollingberry over Chris Kelly in this week’s by-election for a vacancy on the 1922 Committee’s Executive didn’t exactly make national headlines – understandably enough. But appearances are deceptive: this apparently narcoleptic event was actually part of a lively drama that could impact on the future of the Government. David Cameron has [...]

How The Conservatives And Business Need To Work Together To Save The Job Creating Sectors

Should Fred Goodwin have lost his knighthood? Should Stephen Hester have been forced to give up his bonus? Should the Coalition be proposing new taxes on the wealthy? Individual pro-enterprise people will answer these individual questions in different ways but the climate adds up to something that’s not attractive to investors, risk-takers and job creators. [...]

Which Senior Ministers Are In Line For Cabinet Promotion?

Chris Grayling and Damian Green popped up in the Daily Telegraph earlier today, publishing a joint article about immigration and benefits. It is unusual for a paper to carry an article by Ministers of other than Cabinet rank. So one might have expected the joint by-line to be that of their two Secretaries of State, [...]

Roundtable Event with 2010 Intake

ConservativeIntelligence hosted a lunch for Silver and Dining Club Members with guest speakers: Margot James MP, David Nuttall MP, Priti Patel MP and Dominic Raab MP.

It’s Miliband, not Salmond or Osborne, who holds the Union’s future in his hands

“Who’s winning the battle for Scotland?” There are two starkly different answers to the question after last weekend’s move by George Osborne and Danny Alexander to carry the fight over Scotland’s future to Alex Salmond. The first is that to date the UK Government is the winner: that the ambush mounted last weekend over the [...]

Back To Earth After The Veto

Have you taken your decorations down? It’s twelfth night. Christmas is over. It’s wet, windy, cold and we’ve all headed back to work. The joy of the Christmas break becomes the January of credit card bills. I’ll stop there before I depress you further! My laboured point is that, despite Cameron’s very upbeat new year [...]

Angry Lib Dems Will Get Their Revenge But Perhaps Not On Europe

Cameron got his best ever reception at the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers on Wednesday night. They thumped their desks with a passion that they’d never done before and I mean ‘never’. The warmth with which Cameron was received by the ’22 was by all accounts unique during his leadership. Receiving the applause he apparently [...]

Cameron’s Steeplechase by Moonlight

The core of the argument for Britain’s EU membership is that we must be at the heart of Europe to enjoy prosperity and influence. The heart of Europe is now set to be the 17, not the 27 – or, to be strictly accurate, perhaps more than 17 (perhaps as many as 26) or perhaps [...]

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