As I type, David Cameron is in the Boothroyd Room, in Portcullis House, addressing Tory MPs who are anxious to hear if his Big Sorry on Friday amounts to a change in direction. True in the Cameroon spirit of open information, I’m being sent some dispatches in real time. Whether it’s interpretation or verbatim quotes isn’t clear: I’ll just pass it on to you raw.
The party, Cameron is saying, must reassure the public that they value public services. Internal polling (which is the basis for the presentation – basically about party aims in 2009) has shown recently that the Tories are still vulnerable to being seen as anti-NHS. So care must be taken to combat this.
Europe is bottom of priorities, so they should not get too excited ahead of the June elections. The presentation on the screen pointed out that when you ask the country to list their top priorities, Europe finishes 11th.
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