In this week's Spectator my Facebook friend Rod Liddle describes the Tories' 2017 election campaign as the "worst ever". Until last weekend I found the Tory's pitch since the election was launched on Easter Monday lacklustre. Last week I described the Tory manifesto as unambitious. Then it all started to go pear shaped with a supposed U-turn on "social care" and recrimination about the scrapping of the pension triple lock and winter fuel payments to pensioners.
This is partly a presentational problem – but there is also something strategically awry as well. By making herself the central theme of the election campaign (her battle bus bears her name in huge letters with the word Conservatives in tiny script underneath), Mrs May has not only taken an unnecessary risk but she has also deprived the party of the campaigning skills of her cabinet colleagues. Her presidential style was apparent at the launch of the Tory party manifesto – "Forward Together" – on 18 May in Bradford. Mrs May declaimed from the podium while the cabinet sat in the front row of the grateful multitude affording their leader frequent bursts of non-spontaneous applause, like the clapped-out politburo of a single-party state.
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