February 2, 2011

Cameron & His Unhappy Tories

Tim Montgomerie, New Statesman

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Walking around the House of Commons, you don't have to go very far to find an unhappy Conservative MP. David Cameron may have become Prime Minister, ending 13 years of Labour rule, but Tory MPs feel like passengers rather than crew on the coalition government's journey. The Conservative leadership is struggling to connect with a parliamentary party that feels underpaid, is threatened by a major review of constituency boundaries and isn't getting to see implemented the Conservative manifesto that it waited all those years for.

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