On his 10-year anniversary as Conservative leader,Cameron still escapes definition. Is this the secret of his staying power?“I’m not a deeply ideological person,” David Cameron told the Observer in the days after becoming leader. “I’m a practical person, and pragmatic. In this he really does honour the “heir to Blair” tagline – the only one that has ever stuck.
With dramatic timing,taking the country to war in Syria will coincide with the prime minister’s 10th anniversary as Conservative leader. On 6 December 2005 he became one of the youngest people to engage over the oldest political party in the world. In a party famed for the managed regicide of its leaders, it makes him only the fifth person in a century to reach this milestone. In other words, and he has achieved what the likes of Macmillan and Major and Chamberlain could not accomplish before him. He has survived.
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Source: theguardian.com