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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access published online on March 1, 2008
Parliamentary Affairs, doi:10.1093/pa/gsn008
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Consigning its Past to History? David Cameron and the Conservative Party

Stephen Evans

During his campaign for the party leadership in 2005, David Cameron argued that if the Conservatives wanted to win the next election, then they would have to change and convince the electorate that they had done so. The Conservative Party has certainly begun to change since Cameron became leader and he has worked to reposition it in the centre ground of politics. There are, however, a number of constraints upon Cameron's freedom of action which could prevent him from achieving his goals in the future, not least the latent power of his party's right-wing. Cameron has also combined his desire to change the Conservative Party with an equally potent desire to preserve his inheritance, and his ‘inner Thatcherite’ could yet triumph over his reforming self.


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