In last night's Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson urged David Cameron to embrace a more radical Conservative agenda. He's worried that the cautious tone of the Party's recent announcements on the health service, foreign aid and fiscal policy are symptomatic of an intellectual timidity that will hamper Cameron's premiership. Instead of reducing state spending as a percentage of GDP, which Fraser fervently believes he ought to do, it'll be more of the same, with Gordon Brown continuing to dictate the agenda long after he's been defeated:
From global warming targets to the Equality Bill, Mr Brown is passing legislation intended to tie the hands of the Tory government. He has established a network of quangos, choc full of Labour placemen, who will act as his government in exile; hoarding both power and money. (To read more, click here.)
