Cameron’s new pitch

A big day for David Cameron. His speech on what divides the Conservatives from Gordon Brown is billed in the Telegraph as the speech of his leadership. Their political correspondent has plenty of advance material, the most interesting line of which is ”We get the modern world, he [Brown] doesn’t”. This is Dave’s strongest pitch: not that he is the “heir to Blair”, or that Gordon is a control freak (both of which may be true) but that this young Tory leader has a stronger instinctive feel for what modern Britain needs and wants than his veteran opponent. It’s a smart pitch.