Tory PPCs by numbers

How modernised are Cameron's Conservatives?

Only 4% of candidates believe international development should be a policy area most protected from spending cuts Source: Conservative Home, 3 July 2009 http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/07/pronuclear-gay-friendly-barely-unionist-very-eurosceptic-meet-the-next-generation-of-tory-mps.html

75% of PPCs were sympathetic to the idea of voucher schemes in the schools system Source: Conservative Home, 3 July 2009 http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/07/pronuclear-gay-friendly-barely-unionist-very-eurosceptic-meet-the-next-generation-of-tory-mps.html

93% opposed the target of getting 50% of young people into university Source: Conservative Home, 3 July 2009 http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/07/pronuclear-gay-friendly-barely-unionist-very-eurosceptic-meet-the-next-generation-of-tory-mps.html

Less than a quarter of candidates believe school spending should be most protected from cuts Source: Conservative Home, 3 July 2009 http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/07/pronuclear-gay-friendly-barely-unionist-very-eurosceptic-meet-the-next-generation-of-tory-mps.html

72% of those polled agreed that Britain needs a fundamental renegotiation of its relationship with the European Union Source: New Statesman, 25 February 2010

20% of PPCs supported the reintroduction of the death penalty Source: New Statesman, 25 February 2010