I recall Nick Cohen saying, around the time that the Lib-Con Coalition was formed, that there was a sharp division in this country between left and right. He defined people on the left as those who blamed the bankers for the financial crash and people on the right as those who blamed the previous Labour […]
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WHY SCRAPPING LORDS REFORM IS ULTIMATELY A DISASTER FOR CAMERON
Many of the more right-of-centre newspapers are declaring that the government calling time on Lords Reform is a victory for Cameron personally. Iain Martin’s piece summarises this thesis: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9451298/Lords-reform-David-Camerons-retreat-shows-there-is-life-left-in-the-PM.html I would argue the precise opposite. I think the whole episode has been a disaster for Cameron and damaging to the Conservative party overall, albeit in […]