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Monday, 1st October 2007

Osborne explains who the uber mods are

Fraser Nelson 1:42pm

Steve Richards has just asked Osborne what he meant by "über modernisers" in his interview with me last week. Here's his answer.

"Some people who had urged modernisation on the party, not necessarily Conservatives, pick us up the moment we talk about law and order or other crucial issues.... We're accused of lurching to the right. I think that's rubbish, and that's what I was saying in the interview."
I never had Polly Toynbe down as a Tory moderniser, but there you go....

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Toby Belch

October 1st, 2007 1:45pm Report this comment

not necessarily Conservatives--like those senior Cameroons who alledgedly voted Green at the last election.

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