Despite his progressive positions in many areas, David Cameron is bidding to become the most identifiably upper-class Prime Minister for more than 40 years.
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British Tories try cross-dressing to win next election
Britain’s party conference season has finished and now an army of commentators is picking over the entrails of the spin, the pollsters are cranking up their next surveys and the voters are waiting to have their say when the general election is called.
Political snippets: David Cameron’s daring election strategy: telling the truth
Tory leader David Cameron tries to win over voters with tax rises and spending cuts, the Tele’s Liberal leadership coup, the winners of Crikey’s Eaters Award and more news from Richard Farmer.
Comparing the party leaders’ speeches: in wordle form
How does Tory leader David Cameron’s recent big pitch to the nation stand up against the speeches of Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher? What if we compare them… as a wordle!?
David Cameron: a radical conservative
Tory leader David Cameron’s speech to his party may have lacked “pizzazz”, but his words were revolutionary, says Fraser Nelson. Cameron is not afraid to tread where so many other conservatives dare not: welfare.
Tories have no reason to party
After 12 years in opposition, Britain’s Conservative Party will likely win the next election. But leader David Cameron isn’t celebrating just yet: he still faces leading an inexperienced party with a weak mandate in a struggling economy.
Read David Cameron’s pitch to Britian
British Conservative leader David Cameron looks poised for victory in the country’s next election. Read his pitch to “put Britian back on its feet”.
How David Cameron won over The Sun
Thanks to months of networking, wine drinking and yacht boarding, the Conservative Party leader wooed the Murdochs, says Andy McSmith The upshot: The Sun turned on Gordon Brown at the worst possible time.
A Tory experiment worth studying
Foreign observers shy away — with good cause — from the US’s creaky, dysfunctional electoral process. But the British example serves to remind us that primaries are also well-known in Europe.
David Cameron drops the ‘twat’ bomb on radio
While the Kyle and Jackie O show provoked controversy in Australia, British Conservative Party Leader David Cameron stirred up his own little storm on popular commercial radio in England overnight.
Tory leader throws a bone to the Eurosceptics
David Cameron, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party and (barring some miraculous recovery in Labour’s fortunes) the country’s future prime minister, at least seems to keep his promises.
The end of the line for UK Labour?
The Thatcherite-lite experiment that began with Tony Blair has well and truly outstayed its welcome. The poor, as always, will continue to suffer.
Tory leader calls for massive redistribution of power
Tory leader David Cameron has called for a “a massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power” in Britain, as support for an overhaul of the UK Parliamentary grows in light of the MP expenses scandal.
Watch out, Labour: Rupert prepares to switch horses
Britain’s The Sun newspaper’s endorsement matters partly because other media think it matters. And right now, though it has favoured New Labour, its support is wavering.
schadenfreude Guy Rundle: Black days for Gordon Brown
The one undoubted advantage of Gordon Brown going now quickly … is that none of us would have to watch him go slowly
The Tory couple who took taxpayers for £282,731
David Cameron was under mounting pressure last night to end the political career of one of his closest allies as the MPs’ expenses scandal claimed its first casualties.
UK expenses scandal: scalps taken on both side of house
Gordon Brown and David Cameron were tonight battling to salvage the reputation of parliament after the MPs’ expenses scandal claimed the first scalps from both major parties.
Guy Rundle: Grubbier than your average British Labour stuff-up
How is it that the British Labour party’s future and reputation had been put in the hands of a man who had wrecked it once?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
There’s a chance the Poms will head to the hustings before we do, perhaps as soon as November 1.
Forget Howard, will Gordon Brown go early?
Will he go early? No, not Howard… British PM Gordon Brown who is even now contemplating a years-early poll, to hit the Tories while they’re back in the basement.
