Shortly after last May’s General Election John O’Sullivan encouraged the Tory Party to recognise that it would struggle to keep its vote amongst the professional chattering classes and that it should woo strivers and the blue collar vote (as George Bush and John Howard have successfully done). At the time this blog noted that The […]
Since becoming leader David Cameron has championed one progressive cause after another… Social justice; Climate change; More Tory parliamentary candidates who are women, disabled or are from ethnic minority groups; Civil liberties in his ‘Come And Join Us LibDems’ speech; An ‘open-hearted’ policy towards asylum seekers; Devolution to Scotland; Redistribution; Global poverty… And today the […]
David Cameron may have been head of policy when Michael Howard ran his "It isn’t racist to impose limits on immigration" campaign… but that dog-whistle approach to politics was comprehensively buried by his interview in today’s Observer. The new Tory leader (enjoying a 9% lead according to a MORI poll for the same newspaper) told […]