Bye bye policies
Charlie Cameron appears hell-bent on scrapping almost every policy the Tories fought the last election on. I almost -- obviously I don't -- feel sorry for Michael Howard, as his election campaign is written out of history. Most talked-about is the patient's passport policy, which allowed a person to seek private treatment and the government would have paid half of the NHS cost. The Telegraph reports this as if it is a surprise, though I don't think it is, the policy was never very popular on the left of the party and I believe was almost scrapped before the last election.I find it rather surprising that the leader can just ditch policies (or make policies) so easily. What formal policy-making mechanisms does the Conservative Party have?
posted by Matthew @ 1/01/2006 05:10:00 PM
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