It’s all over. Cameron has won and he will now lead the Conservative Party through an exciting few years and, hopefully, to a new Conservative government for the first time in 12 or 13 years.

To celebrate a few of us (Optimates, Gavin Ayling and Tory Convert) have set up the Cameron Leadership blog. I hope you’ll join us there.

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Author: Gav

The campaign is over. The result will be known tomorrow and I, for one, believe the result will be closer than is expected by many.

I’ll leave the last word of the campaign-proper to Dave:

The ballot has closed, and I just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed this leadership campaign, and how much I appreciate your support.

I think the fact that we have had this opportunity to properly discuss our Party’s future direction has been great. We’ve had a really productive six months since the General Election, talking about the challenges our country faces and how we should deal with them. We’ll know the result of the ballot tomorrow, but I wanted thank you for registering your support on my website - it’s meant a huge amount to me that so many people have agreed with what I have to say about changing our Party.

Best wishes

David

(From an e-mail sent to all supporters)

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Author: Gav

We’re all a little bored with this contest, I’m sure.

The majority of members had voted, myself included, within a week of the ballots being issued or, if not, within days of the local hustings.

And Cameron’s own e-mails reflect that. In today’s newsletter was the excellent news that the Telegraph is supporting Cameron. But alongside this was the ‘news’ that Pink News is supporting Cameron. This is strange for two reasons:

1) Pink News has been supporting Cameron since 20 October
2) The news article linked to from the e-mail was that of the 20th of October!

Oh well, at least we can be pleased that Cameron’s appeal to the electorate is continuing to be highlighted. Roll on the result!

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Author: Gav

If you’re still undecided, there is plenty of insightful stuff out there, try Richard Bailey’s take on the Cambridge hustings for example.

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Author: Gav

I’m sure we all know that Richard and Judy are Blairites but regardless Cameron handled himself commendably on their programme yesterday.

Anyone who had doubts about his composure and ability to answer inflamatory or contentious questions must now know that they had him mismeasured…

If you saw the debate on Sky yesterday evening I urge you to register with this site and write it up!

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Author: Gav

What more could David Cameron ask for? The ‘other right wing candidate’ and William Hague (the best Prime Minister that never was) have both publicly declared their support for David Cameron.

Surely there can be no question now that the MPs are behind Cameron?

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David Cameron has been voted Politician of the Year at the annual Spectator awards. The panel included George Jones, Andrew Gimson and Frank Johnson, of the Daily Telegraph, Frank Johnson and Peter Oborne, of The Spectator, Anne McElvoy, of the Evening Standard, Anne Treneman of the Times , Trevor Kavanagh, of the Sun, Alan Watkins, of the Independent, Quentin Letts, of the Daily Mail and Michael White, of the Guardian.

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Author: Gav

Friends of the Earth have an interview with David Cameron. In it he comes across pretty well with positive concrete proposals for cross party working.

Friends of the Earth

Author: Chris

My girlfriend introduced me (belatedly) to The West Wing this summer and I’ve been hooked ever since. It was very interesting, therefore, to read the references to the show in Alice Thomson’s endorsement of David Cameron in today’s Telegraph.

Author: Iain

Only those with a particularly non-trendy political anorak had heard of David Cameron before the leadership election started. It is remarkable how fickle we all are when reading and commenting about political machinations that today’s famous politician is yesterday’s hard working politician.

Thanks to a search someone made to find my blog I found the following article published in the Guardian in June 2003 about the Euro.

It explains, with excellent clarity two things that trouble us all today:

1) why Cameron, who was involved in the ERM in 1992, is now so clearly anti-Euro and EU; and
2) why the Euro is not for Britain ever.

Click the following link to read the Guardian’s article

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Author: Gav