Third Parties
Should Downing Street and Conservative HQ have a powerful external affairs unit to build deep relations with Britain’s most important third party groups?
Movement
How can the party strengthen and utilise its relationship with movement groups, including the Countryside Alliance and the TaxPayers’ Alliance?
Minorities
What is the ideal strategy for the Conservatives to reverse our poor performance within minority communities?
Floating Media
How do we encourage Tory MPs to appear more regularly on Breakfast News, Five Live and the other media platforms that reach more floating voters than Today and Newsnight?
New Media
What is the best way of sending out big messages during an election campaign? Should the party be switching from billboard to more direct messaging and internet advertising?
Micro-Targeting
What can we learn from America in using Facebook, Twitter and email to communicate directly with electoral niches?
MPs & MEPs
How can the party make better use of the time talents of Tory MPs and MEPs?
Local Lessons
How have the Conservatives become embedded in lower income wards in Hammersmith, Wandsworth, Westminster, Trafford and other parts of British local government?
Unions
What steps should be taken to limit taxpayer funding of pro-Labour campaigning by the trade union movement?
BBC Monolopy
Should we top-slice the BBC licence fee to ensure a more diverse supply of broadcast news media?
London & Global
What general lessons can we learn from successful electoral campaigns by our own MPs, Boris Johnson and sister parties in other parts of the world?
Scotland & Wales
Is it time, despite Murdo Fraser’s defeat, for Ruth Davidson to radically change the Scottish Party? What can the still troubled Scottish party learn from the success of the Welsh Conservatives?
Candidates
What kind of person should we be selecting to be the Tory MPs of the future? To what extent do we need more diversity of background and regional identity, rather than of gender and ethnicity?
GOTV
Could referenda be used to boost turnout of natural Conservative supporters on election days?
Fleet Street
How can we better work with the Quad of newspapers who traditionally support the Conservative Party?
Party Funding
How can the internet be used to diversify party fundraising?
Yellow to Blue
Will we take this once-in-a-generation opportunity to oust Liberal Democrat MPs in the South West and South East of England? How should we do it?
Party Unity
How can Number 10 Downing Street build better relations with the whole breadth of the Conservative Party?
Regionalism
Should we have MPs and peers as spokespeople in target cities and regions, coordinating campaign themes and media messaging?
Activism
What incentives and models can be introduced to rebuild the party’s membership and wider supporter base?
Appointments
Labour have used public appointments to frustrate conservatism. How do we counter this?
Targeting Labour
What are Labour’s weaknesses and how do we target them?
Incumbency
How do we maximise our advantage of having so many new MPs?
Debates
When is the best time to hold them and should they be two or three party debates?
Retail
Do big or understandable policies move most votes?