«I renounced the seriously misjudged views I
expressed during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.
@DVA I had a short spell as editor of the Conservatives Against NewLabourisation blog but I renounced the seriously misjudged views I expressed
during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.
David Cameron made it very
clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over tax cuts and he was subsequently elected leader by a significant majority of the party membership, so I think anybody that expects him to abandon that position now is being a bit unreasonable to be honest.
He
said during the leadership election campaign that he would be prepared to serve under his brother, who until Saturday had always been his junior in politics, but he has not confirmed that he will since Ed emerged victorious.
I hope all of the candidates hoping to succeed David Cameron will appear before this
caucus during the leadership election and be quizzed on their ideas for reforming capitalism, increasing housebuilding, bringing the «undeserved rich» down to size and harnessing tomorrow's technologies for popular rather than sectional gain.
It argues that Labour's biggest problem is not the loss of its «core vote», as Ed Miliband has
highlighted during the leadership election, but its need to woo the middle classes, as his brother and main rival David has claimed.
Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, blamed the Copeland loss on Labour's «collective failure» to heal the divisions that tore it
apart during the leadership election last year.
Labour moderates need a new name (not Blairite or anything redolent of), philosophy (vintage in tapping into the same revisionist traditions as the Third Way, while also being thoroughly contemporary), and (having been comprehensively out organised by the
left during the leadership election) structures.
After significant electoral defeats at the hands of the SNP in 2015 and 2016, and splits over Corbyn's leadership bid last year, senior figures in both wings of the Scottish party say they are keen to preserve
unity during the leadership election.
As I said yesterday, David Cameron made it perfectly
clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over unfunded tax cuts, and was subsequently elected by a significant majority of the party membership, so anybody getting their knickers in a twist about him sticking by that policy (the title of this thread is clearly wrong) now is being unreasonable.
I had a short spell as editor of the Conservatives Against NewLabourisation blog but I renounced the seriously misjudged views I
expressed during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.
During the leadership election, I attended marches alongside other supporters and listened intently to debates within the movement.
(7) David Cameron employed the «and theory»
during the leadership election.
Daniel says: «I renounced the seriously misjudged views I expressed
during the leadership election.»
This from the man who called him «Calamity Clegg»
during their leadership election.