Britannist

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported on 1.10.2006 that Lord Tebbit, the eurosceptic former Chairman of the Conservative Party, had stated (brief extracts) “David Cameron (the Conservative leader) is puerile. I do not know if he would make a good Prime Minister. He has no track record in office. But it would seem that he is offering a Labour-style high-tax and high-spend government. The best way to help ordinary working people was to let them keep more of their wages. There are many Conservatives who can afford to pay their taxes but we need to help those at the bottom of the pile, like bus drivers, by taking them out of tax altogether. The Cameron-led Tory (Conservative) campaign for the last General Election was puerile, - one of the worst I have seen in my life. As Party leader, he has run a brilliant public relations exercise but there must be more substance." The Mail on Sunday said that Lord Tebbit’s reference to “many Conservatives who can afford to pay their tax” was a “thinly-veiled jibe at Mr. Cameron and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, who both come from wealthy families.”