I have just seen the Conservatives' future. Unfortunately, it's in New Zealand.

So it's just as we thought: the Conservatives are a bunch of timid, Blairite statists who aren't going to drag us out of Europe and are going to spend the next 5 years treading water.

But just imagine, for a moment, a Tory party conference in an alternative universe in which they'd made some of the following commitments:

Massive tax cuts to boost economic growth.Sweeping health care reform – cutting back on bureaucracy, encouraging private health care, improving value in the system.A coalition...