he poor bastard!
I'm not generally fond of Tories (Mike - you're excepted!), but I feel sorry for this one. So young and full of enthusiasm, and there he is, trying to change a party that is so, well...conservative. The average age of party members is over 70, don't forget.
With Blair it took a year of hard fighting and the pain of the clause IV issue finally to change things, and even that was the culmination of a long process that started with Kinnock and continued with John Smith.
Poor old Cameron's inherited a bunch of lunatics prone to fighting like rats in a sack, who believe what's written in the Express and the Mail and who aren't really used to thinking about change in a positive light. He's got his work cut out.