You wouldn’t want to take Davd Cameron’s soft, cuddly Tory party at face value – I know some of the people behind him, who are definitely neither soft nor cuddly, and definitely very pro-American – but he certain has convinced some members of the own party and some of its natural supporters.
Anatole Kaletsky is horrified by his apparent tax-and-tax approach (the cynic in me thinks that Cameron’s spin docs will be very, very happy about this piece, in their desperate struggle for the “middle ground”) and you can see the Telegraph visibly gulping as it writes the headline Cameron kills Tory taboos on gays and single parents.
Interesting times in politics, when the Tories are definitely positioning themselves to the left of Labour on many issues. Then again that’s the only bit of the middle ground left, so far to the right is Tony Blair.
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