Built on Sand? Ideology and Conservative Modernisation under David Cameron

Abstract

In an article of July 2008, designed to advertise his credentials as a future prime minister, David Miliband chose to attack the opposition leader instead of praising his own chief, Gordon Brown. David Cameron, Miliband conceded, ‘might be likeable and sometimes hard to disagree with’. However, with no ‘vision for Britain’, Cameron was ‘a politician of the status quo … not change’. ‘His problem’, Miliband concluded, ‘is that he is a conservative’.2