“..Here’s why the Tory lead is narrowing..”
“..The narrowing of the Conservatives’ lead in the polls may or may not be a passing phase.
The fact that it is happening at all is in some ways extraordinary.
For more than two years an army of Conservative and non-Conservative pundits has worked on the fashionable assumption that David Cameron was heading for a comfortable majority and Labour for annihilation.
As part of the collective assumption various ministers and de-politicised Blairites have poured poison into the ears of political journalists about the behaviour of Brown..
.. implying that voters should make a judgement about a leader on the basis of how he treats his poor downtrodden ministerial colleagues..
.. those weak-kneed, half-formed politicians who have never had to take a big political decision in their lives.
The polls suggest that voters are at least tentatively challenging the parochial assumptions..
.. prodding against the glass wall to discover a little more about what lies behind the vacuous clichés ..
.. “modernisation”, “change” and “progressive”..”
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