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Chapter 18

Political parties

Conservative Home
conservativehome.blogs.com/
Conservative Home is the principal blog for Conservatives in the UK. It provides links to major news stories and comment pieces on Conservative politics. It provides details of candidate selections and a diary of Conservative terminology. Naturally, it also provides links to other sites of interest to Conservatives.

Labour Home
www.labourhome.org/
Labour Home is the analogue of the site above, and seeks to be a clearinghouse for the Labour Party’s grassroots members. You will find links to, and comment upon, news stories relating to the Labour Party, details of the latest candidate selections and information on elections to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC).

The Charter Movement
www.tory-charter.org.uk/
The Charter Movement is an organisation of Conservative Party members seeking greater internal democracy within the party. The site is not updated frequently, but you can discover more details about its proposals for reforming the party and its responses to recent initiatives by the party’s leadership in the news section of the website.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
home.freeuk.net/clpd/index.htm
There are a number of organisations which are currently campaigning for increased democracy within the Labour Party (for example, Labour Reform, the Grassroots Alliance and Michael Meacher’s commission on democracy in the Labour Party). The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy however is the most venerable of these, having been established in 1973. Although the site is infrequently updated, you can find links to reports of NEC meetings, details of the history of the organisation and the proposals it is advancing at the party’s conference.

The Phillips Review of Funding of Political Parties
www.partyfundingreview.gov.uk/
This is the website of the Review on the Funding of Political Parties which was established by the Prime Minister in March 2006 and is due to report in December 2006. It is chaired by Sir Hayden Phillips (who conducted an earlier review of the Honours system). The website provides a useful review of the key issues involved in the funding of political parties in the UK and updates as the review progresses are promised.