Is the Tory right secretly gunning for Cameron? Rachel Sylvester today raises this prospect, and you can take as read this reflects thinking at a senior level within the Cameroons. This bodes ill and suggests someone is worrying that “the Wicked Tory Right are coming for Dave, that explains all the criticism of George, let’s fight them” rather than “we messed up, we have no clear message, let’s sort ourselves out and quickly.” Sure, there are grumbles in the corridors of Westminster but this is several places on the Richter scale away from a kill-the-leader rebellion. I have detected absolutely no anti-Cameron sentiment, and the very idea of an alternative leader is laughable.
So why this reprisal of the Cameroons v the Nasty Party narrative? It was a useful WWF-style play fight laid on for a section of the London media, who did actually believe in Theresa May’s myth of the Nasty Party.
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