Hastings gets hot and heavy over Dave

In a twelve hundred-word love letter to David Cameron, Max Hastings contextualises the impact of the uppity Tory Leader, since he took over the party reigns from the shadowy Michael Howard.

Like a rabbit, caught in electric-blue headlights, Hastings professes his unending admiration for Cameron, and all but proposes to the Eton-educated member of the Nottinghill Set, as he waxes lyrical about his virtues.

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If I sound somewhat starstruck, so I am. Two years ago I doubted that a politician as inexperienced as Cameron could gain the Tory leadership, and I did not believe that a clutch of old Etonians would ever again prove acceptable to the British electorate as its rulers. Today my respect for Cameron is almost unbounded. As Michael Heseltine says: “He has transformed the face of British politics.”

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…it now seems overwhelmingly likely that Cameron will sooner or later become prime minister. Sure, he was born at the right time. But he is also working his passage with dazzling style.

Go clean yourself up Max.