Summary
TODAY'S launch by David Cameron of an initiative to give voters a say in the making of Conservative policy follows a difficult week. There is no doubt that his honeymoon as leader is over. He has changed the party's image but now the harder task of policy-making begins. His shaky performance at Prime Minister's Question time last week met with a silent response from his own MPs.
He has been forced to abandon talk of the Conservatives as "heirs to Blair", realising too late that was counter-productive, given how unpopular the premiership is in its dying days. His miscalculation on grammar schools has been damaging, while the flip-flop over museum admission charges looks bumbling. And today's appeal for input from people outside the party runs the risk of suggesting that focus groups are determining party policy.See the full content of this document
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Mr Cameron Must Raise His Game
But this is not the way to convince either the party's core vote, or thos...
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