As we did for Mike Gerson,
ConservativeHome recently arranged a three day visit to the UK for Fred
Barnes, Executive Editor of America’s Weekly Standard. Our programme
for Fred involved about fifteen meetings, including with George
Osborne, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith (politicians); Martin
Bright, Janet Daley and Daniel Finkelstein (commentators); plus Andrew
Cooper, Rick Nye and Stephan Shakespeare (pollsters). The New York Times’ David
Brooks is our next guest.
Fred has now written up his visit as the cover piece in the latest
edition of TWS. It’s one of the very best summaries of Project Cameron
that we’ve ever read. He identifies the following main lessons that
the Conservatives of the UK can teach the Conservatives of the US. He
unpacks each lesson in his article but here they are as bullet points:
* David Frum fears the GOP has done this. Meeting Tim Montgomerie
last week he noted that, for example, there is not a single economist
that supports the Republicans at the University of Chicago.