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David Cameron today threw his weight behind international condemnation of Russia with a call for the suspension of European negotiations with the superpower. The Conservative party leader also urged the European Union to accelerate its trade talks with Georgia. Speaking on Sky News, Cameron explained: "There are still Russian troops in Georgia proper and this is after they signed a peace agreement saying they would pull out all their troops. "They really have behaved in a way that is quite wrong and will I believe turn out to be counterproductive." He added: "If European countries come together and send out...

Opposition leader David Cameron on Saturday became the first top British politician to visit Georgia since the conflict with Russia began and slammed Moscow for "invading" the country. "I wanted to come to show the strongest possible support of the British people, the British government and the British opposition," Cameron told reporters after talks with Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze. "Russia invaded another sovereign country and that should not be allowed to stand. The Russian troops must leave... it is remarkable how close they are to Tbilisi," said the leader of the right-wing Conservative party. Foreign Secretary David Miliband has...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says there is "no justification" for Russia's military action in Georgia. He said the intervention "threatens the stability of the entire region and risks a humanitarian catastrophe". "There is a clear responsibility on the Russian government to bring this conflict quickly to an end," he said. Tory leader David Cameron branded Russia a "dangerous bully" and urged the international community to stand up and condemn its action in Georgia. He also called for Georgia's membership of Nato to be "speeded up". Mr Cameron told the BBC: "The only language that bullies understand is when someone...

David Cameron declared yesterday that some people who are poor, fat or addicted to alcohol or drugs have only themselves to blame. He said that society had been too sensitive in failing to judge the behaviour of others as good or bad, right or wrong, and that it was time for him to speak out against "moral neutrality"... "We talk about people being 'at risk of obesity' instead of talking about people who eat too much and take too little exercise," he said. "We talk about people being at risk of poverty, or social exclusion: it's as if these things...

Election latest: David Cameron inflicts worst drubbing in 40 years The Conservatives made sweeping gains across the country early today as voters gave Gordon Brown a huge rebuff in his first electoral test as Prime Minister. David Cameron chalked up important successes in the North, the Midlands and the South, securing his top target of Bury in Greater Manchester and taking control of Nuneaton and Bedworth, and Southampton. The Conservatives also took seats in Labour strongholds of Sunderland and Wigan. Labour suffered one of its worst electoral humiliations, with its national share of the vote dropping to 24 or 25...

Today the President met with Salvadorian President Elias Antonio Saca in the Oval Office and posed for a photos with members of the U.S. Solheim Cup Team. The President also had a meeting with British Conservative Party Leader David Cameron at the White House but there does not appear to have been any photos released of this meeting. David Cameron held a press conference at a hotel after this meeting and also spoke at the Brooking Institute where he emphasised the special relationship between Britain and the US. The President and the Vice President visted to Pentagon for a meeting...

(Nov. 10) - Kate Moss recently met British opposition party leader David Cameron at a charity fundraiser, whereupon she began complaining about some plumbing issues she was having in her home. "So I went on like this, twittering on, and she turned around and said, 'God, you sound like a really useful guy, can I have your phone number?'" he told a British talk show, reports the Agence France-Presse. "I went back to my table and said, 'The good news is, I met Kate Moss and she wanted my telephone number. The bad news is, I think she thinks I'm...

David Cameron: 'UK needs immigration cut' Reports by James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 2:23am GMT 29/10/2007 Immigration is too high and must be reduced, David Cameron is to announce. The speech effectively ends David Cameron's near silence on the issue In his first major speech on the issue, the Tory leader will challenge Gordon Brown to a "grown-up" debate. Effectively tackling Mr Brown on his slogan "British jobs for British workers", he will suggest that, if more British citizens work instead of claiming benefits, there will be fewer vacancies to attract immigrants. The population is projected to pass 70...

If it was not the speech of his life, it came pretty close. David Cameron's performance yesterday in Blackpool was convincing enough to suggest that he will make speeches at Tory conferences as his party's leader for quite a few years to come. It will also have delivered a sharp jolt to the very clever young Labour strategists who have landed Gordon Brown in the rather tricky position of having to decide this weekend whether he really wants an election. Just days ago, those masters of the Brownite universe, urging on their boss, appeared to be touched by genius. Now,...

Conservative leader David Cameron has promised to fight Labour's recent dominance in opinion polls and offer a "clear and compelling" alternative. Arriving in Blackpool for his party's annual conference, Mr Cameron was asked if the Tories were ready for an election. He replied simply "you bet". He said the country had suffered 10 years of a Labour government and was ready for a change... On the eve of his second conference as party leader, Mr Cameron is expected to announce a raft of new policies, including a plan to tax flights rather than individual passengers... Amid speculation about a possible...

16 September 2007Cameron loses room to Muslims By Nigel Nelson David Cameron has been forced to give up a Parliament room so Muslims can pray in it. Commons officials took Conference Room H off the Tory leader, who used it for secret MP briefings. The move angered secretaries in the next-door office. One said: "We work on a lot of confidential material and we don't know who will be going in there." The room will be used by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. Muslim Labour MP Sadiq Kahn said it was an "excellent" idea, and joked: "David is...

Thatcher's snub to CameronMargaret Thatcher dealt a devastating snub to David Cameron by asking for TV cameras to record her meeting with Gordon Brown. The Downing Street visit was originally intended to be unpublicised with her smuggled in by the back door. The Prime Minister was happy to go along with that... but 48 hours before Thursday's visit the former Premier's aide called to say she now wanted the meeting to be in the full glare of the cameras. The astonishing U-turn by the woman famed for "handbagging" foes was intended to cause maximum embarrassment for Cameron, who she believes...

The Tories' green oak tree logo has turned a more traditional shade of blue as an embattled David Cameron seeks to reassure Conservative activists that he is not abandoning the party's core values. A year after the controversial doodle replaced the party's traditional red white and blue flaming torch of freedom, it has lost its environmentally friendly green leaves. Designers were paid £40,000 last summer to replace the torch with the oak tree logo The blue-sky version of the logo was unveiled earlier this week when William Hague, the party's foreign affairs spokesman, published a “plain English guide” to the...

David Cameron yesterday stepped up the Tories' modernising drive by becoming the first party leader to appoint a Muslim to an Opposition shadow cabinet. Sayeeda Warsi, 36, a British-born Muslim of Pakistani origin who has been nominated for a peerage, was named the 10th most influential Asian woman in a poll this year. At the 2005 election, Mrs Warsi, who is married with one child, was the first Asian woman to be selected by the Tories to fight a parliamentary seat. She will be responsible for community cohesion. But Mr Cameron's attempt to regain the political initiative with a wide-ranging...

The Conservative Party long ago decided that too much talk of the British way of life, like too much loud opposition to immigration, made them sound crypto-racist. That left the patriotism card for Labor to play. Indeed, as the Conservative Party has moved rapidly to the left, whole swathes of policy have been left open for Labor. Cameron is greener-than-thou, positively enthusiastic about public spending and skeptical of George W. Bush.

Tory leader David Cameron writes of the benefits of integration after staying in Birmingham Sunday May 13, 2007 The Observer The challenges of cohesion and integration are among the greatest we face. I wrote in these pages in January that we cannot bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them. Last week, I spent two days staying with Abdullah and Shahida Rehman and their family in Birmingham. The experience has strengthened my conviction about the right way to build a more cohesive Britain. First, a concerted attack on racism and soft bigotry. You can't even start to talk...

The subject of community cohesion, for understandable reasons, has become prominent in our national conversation over the past few years. But it is a challenge we have faced before: the question of how we live together is as old as humanity itself. Throughout history, there have been periods when Britain has not been entirely comfortable with itself or individual communities within it. Who would now question the contribution made by Jewish people to British society - or even talk about there being a conflict between being British and Jewish? And yet, only 50 years ago, this was exactly the debate...

Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron, in an effort to "modernize" his party, has embraced gay marriage as a key issue facing the next generation. Cameron hopes to "bury old taboos" of past British generations, according to a report in The Times (U.K.). Among those taboos are gay marriage, single parenting and new house building. Cameron, who is campaigning to replace outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair in the upcoming U.K. election, has targeted "female-friendly" issues, much like Blair did a decade ago, to broaden his party's base and secure more votes, according to various news reports. In a speech to...

"If we retreat now, hand Iraq over to Al Qaida and sectarian death squads and Afghanistan back to Al Qaida and the Taleban, we won't be safer; we will be committing a craven act of surrender that will put our future security in the deepest peril." - Tony Blair Just saw Tony Blair's farewell address to the Labour Conference. At next year's conference, the delegates will be addressed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. I've seen some of these things before, for both the Tories and Labour, and they are always preaching-to-the-choir jobs. They pump up the home crowd and trash...

No less than Osborne, Hague has brooked no hint of doubt about the wisdom of the Iraq warAN IMPRESSION has spread and needs to be questioned. It is that the new leadership of the Conservative Party has slid towards the centre in all things. I believe that in matters of foreign and defence policy the opposite is true. Here, and on Europe, I think the instincts of the party’s new leadership have shifted the Opposition to the right. Those of us inclined to see David Cameron and his friends as moderate and consensual in every sphere, domestic and foreign, may...

May 15, 2006 issue - David Cameron, a fresh-faced 39-year-old graduate of Eton and Oxford, was elected leader of Britain's opposition Conservative Party five months ago. His attempts to change and move to the center the once mighty party of Margaret Thatcher got their first real test last week at the polls. The elections were local but had national repercussions. Overall, Cameron's Tories got 40 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party, after nine years in government and beset by a series of recent scandals and missteps, got only 26 percent—trailing even the Liberal Democrats. NEWSWEEK's Lally...

David Cameron vowed last night never to give in to the Tory Right as he spelt out his determination to fight and defeat New Labour on the centre ground of politics. Outlining his vision for recapturing middle class votes and returning the Conservatives to power, the new leader said that his party would face "irrelevance, defeat and failure" if it allowed itself to be swayed again by "well-intentioned cheerleaders on the Right". Since Tony Blair's arrival on the political scene the Conservatives had been wrong to campaign so hard on Right-wing issues such as immigration as they tried to differentiate...

BOB Geldof, the rock singer behind the Make Poverty History campaign and Live8 concerts, is to act as a consultant to Britain's main opposition Conservatives, the party announced today. Geldof, who led calls for the Group of Eight richest nations to act on debt, trade and poverty during July's Gleneagles summit, will work as an adviser to Tory leader David Cameron's new Globalisation and Global Poverty policy group. The move is likely to be seen as a coup for Mr Cameron, who was elected to the post earlier this month, and signals a move by Tories onto ground championed by...

The liberal elite wants to give Cameron a fair wind, but the main parties now ignore public opinionConventional wisdom is almost always wrong. It is seldom more completely mistaken than it is now over the Tory party. The apparent revival of this doomed movement is in fact very good news for the British left, which now faces the perfect opposition. It is most unlikely to beat them, and would not reverse New Labour's social, cultural, constitutional and economic revolution if it did. David Cameron's Conservative party is empty of oppositional ideas and organisationally hollow. The Grim Reaper gently escorts many...

DAVID CAMERON’S debut as Tory leader has given the Conservatives a surge of support that has put them ahead of Labour for the first time in 18 months, a Sunday Times poll shows. The YouGov poll of more than 2,000 people, carried out since Cameron was declared leader of the party on Tuesday, reveals that the Tories have turned a two-point deficit to a one-point lead. Cameron’s victory has pushed the Tories up to 37% of the vote, two points up on last month, while Labour is down one to 36%. The Liberal Democrats have also been squeezed, down two...

So that's the way to do it - put Punch and Judy back in their box and treat Labour's chief whip, Hilary Armstrong, like the puppet couple's screaming baby. Alright, David Cameron didn't actually throw Ms Armstrong downstairs or threaten to feed her to a crocodile - but she may well have wished something would swallow her whole after his withering put down. That's the problem with these sessions, denounced the new opposition leader only seconds into his first question. "The government chief whip shouting like a child. Has she finished, have you finished?," he demanded. "Well, punk, have you,"...

At about 4 this afternoon in London a new leader of the British Conservative party will be elected. Unless today turns out to be a heavy news day, the result may even figure on this evening's network news programs. And that itself will mark a sharp upturn in the recent fortunes of the original Tory party. For the last three Tory leaders have been elected to tepid interest in Britain, let alone in the rest of the world. William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard were never really expected to win a national election in Britain against the dominant...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Conservatives chose David Cameron as their new leader on Tuesday, opting for youth to revive their fortunes and challenge British Prime Minister Tony Blair after three successive election defeats. The centre-right party, which dominated 20th century British politics under leaders such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, has struggled to drag itself out of the wilderness and Cameron, 39, is the fifth Conservative leader in eight years. But there is new hope in the party as the popularity of ruling Labor wanes. Blair has said he will not fight a fourth election and a faltering...

The four men vying to be Tory leader are preparing for the first knock-out vote by the parliamentary party. David Cameron, Ken Clarke, David Davis and Liam Fox face the ballot a day after being questioned individually by MPs at a hustings in the Commons. The man with fewest votes will drop out before Thursday's second ballot, after which the two winning candidates will be put forward to all party members. Mr Cameron is favourite but the other three men say they remain confident. Conservative MPs have from 1300 BST to 1700 BST to cast their secret ballot in a...