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3. From Stockbroker’s Son to Vicar’s Daughter: The Conservatives

verfasst von : Philip Cowley, Dennis Kavanagh

Erschienen in: The British General Election of 2017

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

When the general election results came through in May 2015, David Cameron and his team were both elated and taken aback. He had been prepared for various outcomes, including defeat, but now found himself leading the first majority Conservative government since John Major in 1992. He was the first Conservative Prime Minister since 1955 to increase the party’s vote share in successive general elections, albeit by less than 1%.

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1
See A. Seldon and P. Snowdon, Cameron at 10. William Collins, 2015, pp. 529–30.
 
2
Ibid., p. 226.
 
3
Tim Shipman, All Out War. William Collins, 2016, p. 204.
 
4
Craig Oliver, Unleashing Demons. Hodder & Stoughton, 2016, pp. 200–1.
 
5
Discussing May’s apparently unenthusiastic support, Oliver commented at the time: ‘It’s making life uncomfortable for us and many feel she owes DC more, but in purely selfish terms, this positions her best.’ Ibid., pp. 125–26.
 
6
Ibid., p. 10.
 
7
Luke Chambers, ‘Theresa May Leads Boris Johnson amongst General Public’, YouGov, 27 June 2016, https://​yougov.​co.​uk/​news/​2016/​06/​27/​theresa-may-leads-boris-johnson-amongst-general-pu.
 
8
Freddie Sayers, ‘Theresa May Storms Ahead of Boris among Tory Party Membership’, YouGov, 29 June 2016, https://​yougov.​co.​uk/​news/​2016/​06/​29/​theresa-may-storms-ahead-boris-among-tory-party-me.
 
9
The phrase was coined by her aide, Nick Timothy, in a discussion with May right at the beginning of the leadership election; it then took on a life of its own. See Tim Shipman, Fall Out. William Collins, 2017, p. 3.
 
10
The YouGov polling (above, note 8) had tested various pairs of candidates in hypothetical run-offs, but not May versus Leadsom.
 
11
The fact that May and Leadsom topped the poll meant that in every Conservative leadership contest to feature a woman, no man has (yet) outpolled a woman. Conversely, in every Labour leadership contest to feature a woman, no woman has (yet) outpolled a man.
 
12
Although Leadsom rejected this interpretation of her words, the transcript did not leave much room for doubt. She said she wanted to approach the issue ‘really carefully’ and did not want it to become a case of ‘“Andrea’s got children, Theresa hasn’t”—do you know what I mean? Because I think that would be really horrible’. But she also said that being a mother ‘means you have a very real stake in the future of our country. A tangible stake’, and implied that she better understood how policies concerned people as a result: ‘When you are thinking about the issues that other people have, you worry about your kids’ exam results, what direction their careers are taking, what we are going to eat on Sunday.’
 
13
In 2003 Michael Howard had been elected unopposed by MPs to succeed Iain Duncan Smith.
 
14
See Rosa Prince, Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister. Biteback, 2017.
 
15
Shipman, Fall Out, p. xxiv.
 
16
See Nicholas Allen, ‘Brexit, Butchery and Boris: Theresa May and Her First Cabinet’, Parliamentary Affairs, 70 (2017): 633–44.
 
17
Ibid., p. 641.
 
18
Although Cameron had given Johnson the right to attend political Cabinets from May 2015 onwards.
 
19
Shipman, All Out War, p. 575.
 
20
The behaviour and attitudes of Hill and Timothy are covered in much more detail in Shipman, Fall Out, esp. Chapters 10 and 11; and Tim Ross and Tom McTague, Betting the House. Biteback, 2017, Chapter 2.
 
21
After the general election, she wrote a number of articles and was quoted in books complaining at length about the role of Timothy and Hill. See, for example, ‘I was Staggered by Their Arrogance’, The Times, 10 June 2017.
 
22
See also Jonathan Mellon, Geoffrey Evans, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green and Christopher Prosser, ‘Brexit or Corbyn? Campaign and Inter-election Vote Switching in the 2017 UK General Election’, 17 November 2017, https://​ssrn.​com/​abstract=​3073203.
 
23
The meeting comprised mostly the Number 10 team (in addition to the Prime Minister, there was Hill, Timothy, Penn, Parkinson and Political Director Alex Dawson). They were joined by Mark Fullbrook, Crosby’s business partner, and the party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin.
 
24
As detailed in Dave Hill, Zac versus Sadiq: The Fight to Become London Mayor. Double Q Books, 2016.
 
25
Adding that the decision to have another pollster doing research in Number 10 might itself ‘be read as a rejection of Lyntonism’.
 
26
There was an obvious paradox in having previously told many new MPs they were on weak ground and then expecting them to be upbeat about an early election—summed up by one of those involved as: ‘You’ve got shit visibility, and no one knows who the fuck you are, but you’ll be fine.’
 
27
‘Sir Lynton Crosby Told Prime Minister to Call SNP’s Bluff on Independence Referendum 2’, The Times, 26 June 2016.
 
Metadaten
Titel
From Stockbroker’s Son to Vicar’s Daughter: The Conservatives
verfasst von
Philip Cowley
Dennis Kavanagh
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
The British General Election of 2017

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-95935-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-95936-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95936-8_3

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