The View from 22 – Cameron on the run

Have the Tories’ manoeuvres over Lords reform signalled the end of the coalition? In this week’s magazine, our leader argues that Tuesday’s rebellion shows that Tories are back in full force, while James Forsyth writes that a coalition break-up date before 2015 is now not a case of if, but when.

But Nick Clegg is not the only party leader to suffer from Tuesday’s Lords revolt. In this week’s View from 22 podcast, recently-resigned PPS Conor Burns MP accuses David Cameron of not appealing sufficiently to his own party:

You see this so often when you watch interviews on television – someone speaking for the coalition, you see someone speaking for the Liberal Democrats but you rarely see someone who is poised to speak for the Conservative Party. I think there is a sense that colleagues feel that the Conservative voice is not heard as strongly as it should be.