Mark Pack

Over on the Daily Telegraph live blog, they’ve picked up my initial reaction to today’s speech from David Cameron:

In the run-up to Cameron’s speech the message from the Conservative Party conference was a very traditional one. Lower taxes, higher speed limits; fewer immigrants, more bin collections; smaller debt, bigger jail sentences. Yet Cameron’s speech was that of a different sort of Conservative – one happy to be in coalition with Nick Clegg, rather than railing against him, one happy to back military intervention to protect human rights, one happy to criticise Labour for failing to do more on the environment and one publicly backing gay marriage.

For a leader’s speech to be so out-of-tune with their own conference suggests something went badly wrong in the planning.