Many Conservatives will have left the party’s Blackpool conference with their feelings about the leadership contest transformed. As the horses enter the final stretch, the pulses of the punters are unquestionably quickening, and the smart money must surely be moving on to David Cameron. It is no disrespect to the other contenders to say that his star has risen the furthest over the last week. It may be that readers do not uniformly share the ecstatic sensations of Bruce Anderson, whose nunc dimittis may be found on page 16, but it is now the Cameron campaign that has momentum, a development that is obviously congenial to this magazine, since The Spectator decided months ago that he was the man for the times and for the job. Now that the excitement is building, and policies can be expected to come under scrutiny, there is only one point that needs reiterating, for the benefit of those ‘modernisers’ who believe that the salvation of the Tories lies in the wholesale imitation of Blair.
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