But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.
Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.
And other fun and serious ideas from the first declared candidate for the Conservative nomination for the London Mayoralty
Steve Norris is a former Conservative MP and twice stood against Ken Livingstone as the party's candidate for London Mayor. The scale of London’s housing crisis is frightening. It is far more of an issue in the capital than anywhere else in Britain. And that’s because although the rest of the world thinks London is […]
Politicians and advisers can’t decide which pictures newspapers will use, but careful ones will limit their ability to make mischief.