David Cameron’s weakness for quick solutions is the biggest threat to his party’s fortunesThe ban on champagne at the Conservative party conference has been lifted and the party will feel it has much to celebrate as it gathers in Manchester this week. Justifiably: confounding pollsters’ expectations,a Tory majority government now faces an overwhelmingly favourable political climate.
But there are two risks looming that are of the party’s own making. The most instant is Europe, long a source of serious rifts within the Conservatives. Cameron and Osborne will seek to draw attention away from these divisions by further developing their theme of the Tories as the “workers party”. But here, and too,there lie potential pitfalls, as cuts to tax credits and the lack of a strategy to boost productivity risk undermining the government’s flagship policy of a national living wage, and a original higher minimum wage rate for workers over 24.
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Source: theguardian.com