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October 30, 2003
Something of the knight

Day one of the new Tory dawn, and Michael Howard is making the right strategic noises. He is casting himself as a one-nation leader, which indeed he has to be if he is ever to become Prime Minister. Accordingly there are overtures to Ken Clarke, a word for people in deprived areas and a pledge for a new politics based on 'rigorous honesty'. Well now, that would be a new politics indeed . He will lead the party, he says, from the centre. Ah, the centre ground of politics -- the only problem is defining it.

Meanwhile, the thing that's really exciting the fourth estate is the fact that his wife is a fomer model.

Groan.

Posted by melanie at October 30, 2003

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You can only hope your Howard is as decent, politically skilful and as genuinely fond of his people as ours is.

Posted by: slatts from Oz at October 31, 2003 12:06 AM

If Michael Howard wishes to lead the Tory party from the centre then he must grab it by the balls and squeeze until it agrees to agree. If his grip is strong enough, hearts and minds will follow.

Posted by: Frank Pulley at October 31, 2003 02:46 AM

Anyone who thinks this odious leftover from the sleazy Major administration is going to win the Tories the next election is living in dreamland.

Howard was one of the main reasons people voted for new Labour in the first place!!

Posted by: dave at October 31, 2003 09:28 AM

"Howard was one of the main reasons people voted for new Labour in the first place!!"

But despite his most hated status, Labour & Lib Dem have polled about 60% of the vote in Folkstone without getting sufficiently organised to vote him out.
Next time perhaps?

Posted by: jim at October 31, 2003 02:13 PM

As a conservative, I am rather encouraged by the comments made by the Lib Dem chairman today concerning their strategy of decapitation of the Tory Leadership. Such a strategy is essentially negative and cynical, as it the wider unofficial agreement between Labour and the Lib Dems to concentrate resources within target seats on an anti-Tory basis.

This behaviour basically brings politics into direpute - it can and often does work short term but in the long term, less so, because voters in the end feel cheated and taken for granted by such tactics. Witness the initial success of George Bush Snr and John Major with negative campaigning - but it didnt work for them next time around.

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So I really hope Labour and the Lib Dems carry on with their arrogant, cynical ways - they will prove counterproductive sooner than they think.

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