An attempt to play down the Conservative Party’s ‘posh’ image backfired when a campaign to promote working-class Tory MPs found only 14 with sufficiently humble roots. Panicking party chiefs have now launched a desperate search for more Conservative MPs who were not ‘born with silver spoons in their mouths’ – begging them to step forward to rescue the initiative. David Cameron had hoped to launch the campaign, which features former Prime Minister John Major, the son of a circus performer, at the party conference in September. But he has been forced to go back to the drawing board because the 14 ‘working-class Tories’ featured in the new ‘Party of Opportunity’ campaign represent fewer than one in 20 of its 305 MPs. • Mail Online - dailym.ai/1pLXd8R
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:43:32 +0000
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