It isn’t often that political commentary presents us with a perfect portrait — a neat and simple miniature in oils — of where a faction is going wrong.
It isn’t often that political commentary presents us with a perfect portrait — a neat and simple miniature in oils — of where a faction is going wrong. Just such a picture, however, was painted unwittingly for us by Tim Montgomerie in the Telegraph last Sunday.
Tim Montgomerie is an admirable and capable figure, and co-editor of ConservativeHome. Without him the world of political commentary would lose one of its most interesting and significant voices on the right. Never unheeding, never unthinking and never unarmed, he’s a formidable protagonist.
But nobody should confuse Tim with the whatever’s-best-for-our-great-party Conservative loyalist that he sometimes seems to present himself as being; and it worries me that many Conservative voters and Tory party members do suppose him and his website to represent a sort of neutral observation platform for Tory-minded folk.
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