Wednesday, 2 July 2008

A change of heart?

A number of commentators are quite puzzled over the subject of this morning's editorial in the Times written by its new chief leader writer Danny Finkelstein.

The piece entitled The Conservatives: vision needed suggests that the party should not just rely on Labour's failings to get into power but produced some policies of its own.

(a wit in the comments section has said that they should wait 2 weeks before the election in case the Labour party steal them)

It is unclear as yet what real choices the Conservatives will offer voters on tax, healthcare and the environment, or whether Mr Cameron can galvanise Tory activists to make his rebranding of the party more than that, to the point that it represents Middle England as new Labour did by 1997. He has not done so yet.


According though to James Forsyth

today’s leader seems to go against what Danny was arguing just a fortnight ago. Then, he wrote that the “party that is first to let the voters know what it really stands for... loses”, and urged David Cameron to resist the lure of being seen as “distinctive”.


A change of heart? But it would be nice to see exactly what the Tory policy is

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