David Cameron will be Britain’s new Prime Minister by next summer — this was the main conclusion drawn from the Labour party conference.
David Cameron will be Britain’s new Prime Minister by next summer — this was the main conclusion drawn from the Labour party conference. It did not need to be announced formally, but it suffused everything, from the desperation in the platform speeches to the gallows humour in the Brighton bars. This week, Britain has seen the spectacle of a party whose MPs are going back to their constituencies and are preparing for retirement — or abject defeat followed by a brutal civil war.
There is now only one party of government in Britain, and it meets in Manchester on Monday. Yet the Conservative agenda for government has all too much scope for improvement. We do not argue for a moment that any political party should lay out its manifesto months in advance.
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