Cameron's Holy Grail ; the Use of Us-Style Open Primaries Could Be an Election Winner for the Tories, Writes Chris Game

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David Cameron just might have found it - his electoral holy grail, the Conservative equivalent of Tony Blair's famous "Clause 4 moment" at the 1994 Labour Conference.

In announcing the abandonment of Labour's constitutional commitment to nationalisation, Blair horrified much of his own party, but persuaded enough "swing" voters that Old Labour really had changed and at last, as New Labour, was safely electable.

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Cameron's Holy Grail ; the Use of Us-Style Open Primaries Could Be an Election Winner for the Tories, Writes Chris Game

With the resolve of an Arthurian knight, Cameron has sought the policy grail that will convince us that his "nasty party" is similarly and irreversibly transformed. National minimum wage - accepted; Scottish and Welsh devolution - accepted; new grammar schools - rejected.

But, like Blair in 1994, Cameron is Opposition Leader, and policy pledges are ultimately just easy words...

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