“I sense you know it but if you doubt it read the comments beneath your letter”
There have been doubts over the Mayor’s suitability as a potential future leader of the Party. Fighting the by-election could change that.
The quarrels, resentments and grievances of the long years since 1990 could collapse “the oldest and most successful political party in the history of the world”.
I doubt whether the ‘Vote UKIP, get Miliband’ slogan is quite as powerful as Tory strategists believe.
The Clacton MP may have a part to play in a long-term reconciliation between the Conservatives and the realist element of UKIP.
Plus: Exam results – my story. The BBC’s hypocrisy over Janice Atkinson. And my great-uncle, killed in action ten days before the end of World War One.
That’s a stark way of stating the choice that Lord Ashcroft’s polling suggests will loom next May.
On Help to Work, Right to Buy, childcare, broadband, marriage – and much else – we are making a difference.
A mixture of regretful nostalgia for what is lost, and sunny optimism for what is to come lies at the heart of every Tory.
He cannot be both court jester and monarch: he will have to choose, and soon.
The Anglosphere model for David Cameron and the Conservatives should be John Key and his National Party in New Zealand.
Not acting on the terms of the Coalition Agreement isn’t simply a breach – it’s poor politics.
Plus: Hague, Hammond and the handling of Warsi. Able Joyce Anelay. Overlooked Rob Wilson. And: Ed Miliband – great company. I like him.
Not to mention for David Cameron, the Party and the country – as this site has long advised.
“He’s realised that he can’t keep putting a decision off.”
There have been doubts over the Mayor’s suitability as a potential future leader of the Party. Fighting the by-election could change that.