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February 2, 2010

Tories Should Be Afraid of Their Own Fears

Rachel Sylvester, The Times

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‘I feel as if I’m carrying a Ming vase across a very slippery floor,” a Shadow Cabinet minister told me recently. “I’m terrified I’m the one who’s going to drop it.” It was a metaphor first used by Roy Jenkins to describe Tony Blair in the run-up to the 1997 election but it now applies to David Cameron as well, as the country prepares to go to the polls again.

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