Eighty-eight years ago this October the Conservative-dominated coalition headed by Liberal David Lloyd George fell. The four years since the end of the Great War hostilities had been troubled. A deep economic recession in 1920/21 had resulted in sharp tax rises and cuts in public spending to the fledgling welfare state. Disquiet over the Prime Minister's corrupt use of the honours system had reached a crescendo. As the parliamentary term neared its end there was continuing...

At around 4.30am this morning, Mark was granted the privilege of being re-elected as your MP for the Cities of London and Westminster with an increased majority and 52.2% of the vote. It has been an energetic, positive campaign and he wishes to thank sincerely all those who put their trust in him again. He will continue to strive to represent ALL those in our constituency and, as ever, encourages anybody who requires his help to get in touch. We will be putting up some pictures of the campaign over the course of the weekend...

Parliament officially dissolved on Monday, firing the starting gun for the run up to May 6 when the country will go to the polling booths to decide our next government. This means that Mark has gone from being the MP for the Cities of London and Westminster to the Conservative Candidate for the constituency. Now that his parliamentary duties have ceased, Mark will be canvassing in the constituency on a daily basis...

In the weeks ahead we can be sure that commentators will be ever eager to draw comparisons between today’s domestic political scene and that of 1979 when the Conservatives were last swept to office. ...

I guess even David Cameron must have been surprised how quickly his prescient warnings last month of the impending scandal over lobbying came to pass. Our national campaign rightly identifies that the UK’s broken politics requires urgent repair. Which is why I believe it is now imperative that Conservatives turn their attention to reform of and appointment to the House of Lords....