I bore for Britain in recommending that the party embraces ‘the politics of and’. The persistence may be paying off. At a dinner with Tory MPs last night the Conservative leader announced that he was a believer in ‘the politics of and’ rather than of ‘or’!
David Cameron gave three examples of the And theory:
The shadow cabinet minister who rang me this morning saw the move as an attempt to reassure Conservative right-wingers that the agenda of the party would be balanced. There will be two key ‘moderniser messages’ – the environment and the NHS – and two ‘core vote messages’ – crime and the family.