The endgame

摘要

There has been heated debate in Conservative circles over whether, in office, David Cameron will prove a Heath or a Thatcher-ie, will he be buffeted by events like Ted Heath, Tory prime minister from 1970 to 1974, or shape them like The Lady? Yet now another, prior question seems more pressing: is Mr Cameron a Blair or a Kinnock? In other words, will he take his reconstituted party into government like Tony Blair, whose 1997 electoral strategy Mr Cameron's cabal studied and emulated? Or, as Neil Kinnock did when he led Labour in 1992, will he stutter at the last?