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Status anxiety

Accept it, embrace it: Conservatives aren’t cool

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

The Times headline on Tuesday was rather cruel: ‘Stars turn down No. 10 invitation.’ This was a reference to the party the press dubbed ‘Cool Britannia II’, David Cameron’s attempt to recreate the glamour of Tony Blair’s star-studded Downing Street reception in 1997. ‘They wanted Daniel Craig and Benedict Cumberbatch,’ said the Times.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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