If the Tories are to beat back this Lib Dem surge, there are three things they need to
do. First, they need to establish Cameron as the insurgent, anti-establishment candidate. It might seem odd to urge the leader of the Conservative party to be the anti-establishment cadidate, but
the establishment in this country is now essentially soft-left. Just look at how senior police chiefs are threatenting to resign over Cameron’s plans for elected police commissioners who would be accountable to the
public and set the priorities of the local force (another transformative Tory
policy that Cameron didn’t mention during the debate) Cameron needs to run against these people. He should be
the tribune of the people pledging to return power to them from the unaccoountable and the unelectable.
Next, they need to attack specific Lib Dem policies; not in terms of details but values.
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