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Article: All of us in the Conservative Party must face up to a hideous truth
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2001
- Author:
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IT IS just possible, but essential for the long-term survival of
the Conservative Party, that Iain Duncan Smith may be able to use the
fog of war to escape from those within the party who are holding him
prisoner. Under more normal circumstances a new leader of the
Conservative Party would have been under intense media attention as
he sought to put his stamp on the party both within and outside
Parliament.
We saw some of this at the very beginning a few weeks ago when Mr
Duncan Smith announced his Shadow front bench. Most of the new
appointments, like most of those they replaced (myself included),
were not exactly household names. Those the public had heard of, such
as William Hague and ...