Today’s papers are full of the Tory right asserting itself. In the Mail On Sunday, Mark Pritchard—secretary of the 1922 committee—demands that the Prime Minister and his allies come clean about any plans to create a long-term political alliance between the Tories and the Lib Dems. In The Sunday Telegraph, there’s a report that Tory rebels will vote with Labour to try and defeat the coalition’s European Union Bill. I suspect that these stories presage one of the major themes of the year, an increasingly assertive right of the Tory parliamentary party.
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For too long, Cameron has neglected his own MPs both politically and personally. The result is a willingness to cause trouble for the government. As I write in the Mail On Sunday, there is discussion about putting down an amendment to the European Union bill forcing an in out referendum on membership.
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