Mr Duncan, a social and economic liberal, warned that the Tory Party could die if it did not realise the scale of the transformation it required. "If we don't get this right we risk being in terminal decline," he said. "Marks & Spencer was a fantastic brand in good times but if you have a lousy CEO and lousy knickers you don't do well. Like M & S we need both a good CEO and better frilly knickers."
Does the Conservative party need "frilly" knickers rather than just plain utilitarian knickers? I think he may be talking 'pants'! The simple fact is that whilst M&S may well have lost its way it is still, by a long way, the largest clothing retailer in the country and fortunately they do not want to run the country.
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I see this morning Damian Green has pledged his support for David Davis - I assume this means that it is all over bar the shouting.
Lets us hope that Ken Clarke can be disuaded from standing!
Does anyone here have any preferences? (personally I would go for Howard Flight!)
Looks as if David Davis will get it now. Just hope that those who wish to see a mre socially just agenda will not now be betrayed.
Funny how you didn't use this bit of his speech...
'We need to appreciate that our attitudes over the last 20 years have alienated an entire generation of voter, whose respect and affection Labour have ruthlessly harnessed for themselves.
It is impossible to exaggerate the extent to which anyone under the age of 35 is more likely to vote against us than for us. Anyone who denies that risks condemn ing us to an ever-narrower base of support , which at the moment is primarily elderly, male and rural.
We have no divine right to exist. There is no automatic return to government. We face a continuing three party electoral battle, and our historic interest base is disintegrating. I'd like to see the Conservative Party so clear and thoughtful that nobody need feel the urge to vote Liberal Democrat.'
I am in complete agreement with that.
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