It casts light on their long-term problems as well as shorter-term difficulties.
If they don’t, what’s presumably their target audience is unlikely to listen to them.
There is surely no problem with an Etonian being prime minister. Voters are not so chippy. But the “two-toffs” problem cannot be lightly dismissed
John Major, William Hague, Michael Howard, David Cameron – all promised to win over new converts, all ended up preaching to the choir. And still no sign of the promised land: an outright majority.
Tory modernisers are guilty of their own ‘stupid logic’…
Elections are won in the centre – and the centre has moved rightwards.
The kind of Tory Party that Cameron should have built is the one that is being set out by Robert Halfon on ConservativeHome this week.
In an interview in last week’s Spectator, the Conservative MP and Cameroonian cheerleader, Nick Boles, expressed some bracing views on the ‘modernisation’ project that he himself was a part of: “Boles concedes that ‘for classic, relatively low income, Midlands and northern towns and cities there was something missing’. He blames this on the modernisers being ‘very carried away […]