Tory donors don’t like the Cameron line on Israel — or on very much else

Since David Cameron announced plans to change the Conservative party’s logo, derisive suggestions have come pouring in. A white flag to depict ideological surrender, perhaps, a spinning weathervane or a sinking Titanic. There have been so many spoofs that the favourite to succeed the ‘torch of freedom’ — a green tree — also looks like a hoax. It is intended to represent security, environmentalism and Englishness. It is simply bad luck that it is so similar to the national flag of Lebanon.

Perhaps there is a subliminal message here. Last weekend, Mr Cameron firmly backed William Hague in saying that ‘elements of the Israeli response [to Hezbollah] were disproportionate… and I think the Prime Minister should have said that’. His point was quite clear: Labour may not be prepared to criticise Israeli excesses, but the Conservatives now are — and thus, according to the polls, stand alongside 63 per cent of the British public.