Cameron Needs to Send Clear Message
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Manchester is plastered with the slogan “Ready for change”. But what the voters want to know from the Conservatives this week is: are they ready? And have they changed?
A daily flurry of policy announcements has been scheduled by Tory high command designed to present the Conservatives as a government in waiting rather than an opposition on the attack. Yesterday was welfare reform and a “tax cut for jobs”; today “tough choices” on public spending are pencilled into the new Labour-style grid. The pitch is that the broken society has now been compounded by a broken economy and a broken politics — a triple whammy that only the Tories can fix.
