With Ed Miliband scoring such a success in evoking the spirit of Disraeli, Conservative Party researchers must be frantically researching the world of Gladstone for David Cameron's big speech on Wednesday.
With Ed Miliband scoring such a success in evoking the spirit of Disraeli, Conservative Party researchers must be frantically researching the world of Gladstone for David Cameron's big speech on Wednesday.
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After all, the only way is backwards now. Suddenly the 19th century is cool. Of course, Mr Cameron will want to go one better than smarmy Ed, which is why, in a specially converted suite in his Birmingham hotel room, teams of make-up artists are at work experimenting with great white sideburns (each of which will bear the Tory party logo), costume specialists are preparing strange band collar shirts ("Splendid! We wore these at Bullingdon!"), and there are regular deliveries of waistcoats and gold fob watches. All the while Mr Cameron is striding up and down intoning: "Even, gentlemen, when you do a good thing, you may do it in so bad a way that you may entirely spoil the beneficial effect; and if we were to make ourselves the apostles of peace in the sense of conveying to the minds of other nations that we thought ourselves more entitled to an opinion on - um, something something, oh blast, forgotten it again."
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With Ed Miliband scoring such a success in evoking the spirit of Disraeli, Conservative Party researchers must be frantically researching the world of Gladstone for David Cameron's big speech on Wednesday.
After all, the only way is backwards now. Suddenly the 19th century is cool. Of course, Mr Cameron will want to go one better than smarmy Ed, which is why, in a specially converted suite in his Birmingham hotel room, teams of make-up artists are at work experimenting with great white sideburns (each of which will bear the Tory party logo), costume specialists are preparing strange band collar shirts ("Splendid! We wore these at Bullingdon!"), and there are regular deliveries of waistcoats and gold fob watches. All the while Mr Cameron is striding up and down intoning: "Even, gentlemen, when you do a good thing, you may do it in so bad a way that you may entirely spoil the beneficial effect; and if we were to make ourselves the apostles of peace in the sense of conveying to the minds of other nations that we thought ourselves more entitled to an opinion on - um, something something, oh blast, forgotten it again."
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