The theme of anger aimed at the coalition from the Tory right is becoming such common currency in Westminster that even John Redwood has been forced to deny joining a “Brokeback Club”, named after David Davis’s remarks attributed to Lord Ashcroft, comparing David Cameron and Nick Clegg to the two gay cowboys in the Hollywood film.
In reality, such rumblings play straight into the hands of the Cameron and Clegg camps, which seem remarkably relaxed about it all. With a huge and apparently ideologically driven cuts agenda to which the new Liberal Democrat leadership has signed up, it is mainstream Lib Dems and those on its left who are most unhappy. Which is why, perhaps, the state-slashing Redwood is urging against Tory attacks on the coalition. It appears that Redwood has a greater understanding than many of where the centre of gravity lies in this government.
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