In a house in Notting Hill earlier this week Osborne led the discussion:
What’s going wrong? he asked. Why are we slipping in the polls, even when Brown is so unpopular?
But though all the Cameroon brains were present in the same room, and considering that everyone there had helped craft the campaign and most considered themselves experts in the dark art of political strategy, no one had an answer. Osborne, who likes to see himself as Brown’s great nemesis, ended the meeting as frustrated as he began it.
It is as clear to the country as it is to the top Tories that the Conservative election campaign is in trouble; that the party seems to be stagnating. One aide puts it like this: ‘A shark has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we’ve got on our hands is a dead shark.’
Here in Hexham thousands are saying, "If only we new what they stood for."
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