What Cameron can learn from Boris

It looks like Conservatism will tonight be affirmed in the greatest city in the world — but thanks to Boris Johnson, who has been able to sell it to Londoners far better than David Cameron managed in the general election campaign. The number to watch out for tonight is the Boris factor, the gulf between those voting for him as Mayor and those voting Conservative for the Greater London Authority.  As I say in my Telegraph column today, the clown prince is getting something badly right.
 
Until recently, we had been told that there are two choices for Conservatism: the ‘modernising’ faction of it, or the old voter-repelling model which lost the last three elections. The ‘modernising’ movement is itself starting to look a bit dated — as if its advocates are dreaming up ever-better ways to win the 2001 election. This is 2012, just a quarter of the British public think EU membership is a good thing and government exploded in size over the last decade.