Rick Santorum’s victory, propelled by social conservatives, is unlikely to derail Mitt Romney, his chief rival.

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Santorum Wins Louisiana Primary

Scottish Conservatives are urged to offer “no compromises” to the SNP in their battle to keep the Union.

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‘No compromises’ in Union battle

If Rick Santorum wants to keep Mitt Romney from wrapping up the Republican nomination before the convention, he should encourage Newt Gingrich to stay in the race, not drop out . Not everyone buys this theory, I admit. The doubters include Santorum — who keeps shoving Newt toward the exit — as well as quite a few leading conservatives, including Family Research Council head Tony Perkins and influential blogger Erick Erickson. They want to see a two-man contest between a “Massachusetts moderate” and a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. Read full article > >

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Santorum needs Gingrich in the race

Conservatives need to do more to “take on” their Lib Dem coalition partners over calls to make it easier to hire and fire people, Liam Fox tells the BBC.

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Fox: Take on Lib Dems on economy

Mitt Romney ’s problems with conservatives and evangelical voters are well-established, but he’s also got a significant — if less readily apparent — issue with less-affluent voters. And it’s a problem that could matter quite a bit in the next few weeks. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s working class problem

More than 100 Conservatives are among MPs who have written to the prime minister calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines.

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PM urged to cut wind farm subsidy

“I’m concerned about the poor in this country,” Mitt Romney said the other day. “We have to make sure the safety net is strong and able to help those who can’t help themselves.” I perked up at those words, because they were something of a departure from his usual stump speech and because they happened to come on a day when I had written about the dire implications of Romney’s proposals for the social safety net . Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s miserly concern for the poor

After months of hand-wringing, social conservative leaders finally gave collective voice Saturday to their unhappiness that Mitt Romney might be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. If not quite a stop-Romney movement, the decision to try to rally support for Rick Santorum represents an open expression of their frustrations. Read full article > >

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Is social conservatives’ embrace of Santorum too late?

Former chancellor Alistair Darling urges Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems to work together to defeat those pushing for Scottish independence.

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Unite to win Scots vote – Darling

NEW YORK — Attention, conservatives: Adam Bellow says this is your moment. The intellectual left, he contends, is in a vacuum. The right is where there are ideas, variety, excitement. And Bellow, a former liberal who has made a career of pushing conservative writers and controversial issues to the forefront of American publishing, wants to hear from you. Read full article > >

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Adam Bellow hopes to give voice to the tea party with new conservative imprint at HarperCollins

This is a moment when policymakers should be thinking big, not small. History will little note nor long remember that the payroll tax holiday was extended for two months rather than 12. The complex and difficult questions we’re avoiding, however, may haunt us through the century. Let me be clear that I applaud President Obama and the Democrats for the political victory they won last week. The impact was to weaken the influence of the most reactionary and clueless faction in Congress — the Tea Party Republicans — and strengthen the hand of both progressives and pragmatic conservatives. This can only be a good thing. Read full article > >

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A brainpower revolution

Newt Gingrich’s years as a House Republican leader created distrust among some conservatives who view him as too much of a pragmatist.

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The Long Run: Conservatives Remain Suspicious of Gingrich

The general sense created by Thursday’s debate in Sioux City, Iowa is that Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are at the center of the Republican race and that all the others are peripheral players. If Gingrich was the front-runner going in, he was still the front-runner going out. He had a strong opening on his record and his commitment to conservatism. He referred, sometimes in jest, to the attacks against him, winning laughter at one point for saying he did not want to appear “zany,” a word Romney had used about him. His proposals on limiting the power of judges raise a slew of problems, as Paul suggested, but I suspect the conservatives he needs liked what he said. Read full article > >

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Iowa Republican debate: Newt’s still on top, Romney steadies himself

Labour holds the Feltham and Heston seat in a by-election, with an eight per cent swing away from the Conservatives.

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Labour wins Feltham by-election

Senior Conservatives and Lib Dems have sought to soothe coalition tensions over Europe after Nick Clegg chose to miss a Commons statement by David Cameron.

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Coalition aims to soothe EU row