Let’s have a reality check. The Tories aren’t all wicked and wrong | Martin Kettle

This government will be judged on three issues: Europe, the union of the UK and public spending. The trick is not to bring your preconceptions with you

What kind of Conservative government is David Cameron actually leading now? It says something about the blurriness of our second-term prime minister that, even after nearly a decade leading his party, answers to this question still vary so radically. Yet there is no more interesting or more important question in the new era of British politics.

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