How the Tories can get back on the front foot was the talk of the Christmas parties and bars of Westminster last night. There’s a general feeling that even though the Tories lead in the polls and the political fundamentals favour them, they are not doing as well as they should be and that they need to improve their poll standing if voices in the party are not to start sounding off.
I suspect that a lot of Coffee Housers would like to see the leadership rip up its whole playbook. That’s not going to happen and it would be a mistake if it did: a string of flip-flops would add to the feeling that the Tories are adrift in the crisis. There is, though, plenty of room for fine-tuning. Here are three of the best ideas doing the rounds:
Make Brown’s tax on jobs a dividing line: Gordon Brown is brilliant at creating dividing lines.
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