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All change at Birmingham.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
When people are asked to compare David Cameron to a make of car, they apparently think of a Jaguar. Well, at 11 o'clock this morning there was a noisy grinding of gears and an acrid smell of rubber as his X-Type suddenly switched direction right in the middle of the Birmingham conference centre.
From Sunday lunchtime, when the Tory party conference opened, until Monday afternoon, when George Osborne made his keynote conference speech, the conference direction of travel was to fix Gordon Brown in the headlights and drive straight at him. No insult was too brutal as the Tories aimed to pin the financial collapse firmly on the prime minister.
On Sunday, William Hague had accused Brown of "Olympic-level dithering" and announced that "Britain cannot move forward until we get rid of them all." On Monday, George Osborne had said that it was time to call time on "Gordon Brown's age of irresponsibility" and told the nation "We've all had quite enough of the Gordon Brown experience."
Now, this morning, the Tories slung the wheel suddenly to the left and executed a breathtaking u-turn in the middle of Birmingham. Cameron came to the rostrum for his second emergency speech in fewer than 48 hours (his officially scheduled one is on Wednesday) and pronounced that the Tories were ready "to help the government to do the right thing ...
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