It’s just like old times, ain’t it? The Sun wading in behind the Tory leader. The paper’s leader today has a headline Tory HQ would have written themselves: He’s Ready. The Sun says:
DAVID Cameron finally stood up yesterday and showed what he is made of.
Gone was the show pony politician. In his place emerged a tough leader, a young but credible statesman with potent ideas for rebuilding our nation.
Mr Cameron said the words his party wanted to hear. He echoed their hero, Margaret Thatcher, calling for “strong defence, sound money and the rule of law”.
The Tory leader insisted there would be “no new dawns, no overnight transformations”.
“I am a man with a plan, not a miracle cure,” he said.
He addressed the concerns of many voters outside the conference hall — State meddling, the welfare culture, the explosion of “senseless, barbaric violence”.
But it will be the reaction of Sun readers that counts in the end.
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