The Week In Politics: Why Tories' opponents want Davis or Fox

Andrew Grice

Published: 15 October 2005

The Tory leadership election is making big waves in the other parties. Ignore the public statements by Labour and the Liberal Democrats that it will make no difference who leads the Tories. Behind closed doors, they have both been discussing the Tory succession this week.

The overnight rise of David Cameron to become the favourite in the Tory race worries the two other parties. Although they hope his lack of experience would make him William Hague Mark Two, they fear privately that he would connect with the voters and transform the Tories in the way Tony Blair revived Labour. The two parties also fear Kenneth Clarke. Although Labour would portray him as a throwback to the bad old Tory years, it knows that the voters don't really see him like that.

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