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The Tories' Easter rising: inside the great Conservative crack-up

Months after a historic election victory, party unity is in pieces. What can David Cameron do about it?

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

No one does political violence quite like the Tories. The fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990 unleashed a cycle of reprisals that lasted until David Cameron became leader in 2005. During that time, Tories specialised in factionalism: wets vs dries, Europhiles vs Eurosceptics, modernisers vs traditionalists. Cameron’s great achievement was to unite the party in pursuit of power.

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