There’s lots of sense in Matt d’Ancona’s most recent column, not least his implied warning that if the Tories tack to the right this will, no matter how much it appeals to the base, be a terrible mistake for Dave and his boys. Whether you like it or not – and plenty of Spectator readers* don’t, I fancy – such a move at this stage of the election cycle would delight the Labour party. Because it would prove what some of them really think anyway: the Tories really haven’t changed at all. They’re the same old nasty, service-cutting, intolerant, weird bunch you’ve rejected three times in a row. That’s a story Labour want to tell and one that might have some merit too.
No, I’m afrad moving to the right would undermine the entire Cameroon idea and make a nonsense of the long, painful, diffuclt, decontamination process. It would represent a defeat, not a triumph of common sense no matter how much it might cheer the punters in the cheap seats.
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