Cameron’s Gay Marriage Victory Showed Him As A Real Leader – Spectator Blogs

And lo, the battle for British Gay Marriage was in fact a rout. True, half the parliamentary Conservative party voted against the measure. True too, this is now being considered further evidence that David Cameron’s leadership skills – or, rather, since they are not the same thing – his party management skills are less than they might be.

But, for once, I think focusing on Tory divisions misses the rather bigger, simpler story. Nearly half the Conservative parliamentary party endorsed gay marriage in the House of Commons. And they did it on a free vote. That is quite a thing.

Now of course I understand why the press prefers to portray this as a struggle between Modernisers and Traditionalists but even if you wish to see it in this  – not altogether useful – fashion there’s no doubt who won. The Modernisers. I fancy that in ten years time we will wonder what the fuss was about.