At this stage in the Parliament, there are no legislative tricks to pull out of the hat. In any case, as far as policy goes, David Cameron has got the basics right: lower spending, welfare reform, free schools, support for enterprise.
But it all risks being thrown away because of a divided Centre-Right vote. Ukip will do to the Conservatives what the SDP did to Labour 30 years ago. Our first-past-the-post system doesn’t allow space for two competing parties on the same side of the political spectrum. Think of the result at the Eastleigh by-election. Two Right-of-Centre, Eurosceptic candidates, standing on virtually identical platforms, secured 53 per cent of the vote between them and both lost, leaving a Euro-integrationist Liberal Democrat to win the seat with 32 per cent.
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