If the Conservative Party is about anything, it is about power. It has had more time in government than any other democratically elected party anywhere in the world. Yet the Tories, battered in two successive elections, are now heading for a bruising two-month leadership race between a right-wing Eurosceptic, Iain Duncan Smith, and a leftish pro-European, Ken Clarke. These men, whose names will go forward to the party membership after they topped the poll in the parliamentary party on July 17th, represent opposite ends of the party, not just on Europe but also on social issues.
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