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GOP Eyes Resurgent UK Conservatives

Cameron's centrist style may help show GOP route back to power

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(Newser) – Britain's Conservative Party is widely expected to regain power next year after over a decade in opposition, and the US Republican Party is starting to look for lessons from across the Atlantic. David Cameron has led the UK conservatives party to a big lead in the polls after it was trounced in three successive elections, but his centrist style and fuzziness on certain policy issues isn't to the taste of many Republicans.

Cameron, who has embraced environmental issues and avoided discussion of divisive issues like tax cuts, shows that a leader needs to appeal to "the voters you need to gain, not the voters you already have," former Bush speechwriter George Frum tells the Wall Street Journal. The Republican debate over Cameron is expected to intensify if he wins Britain's next election, due to be held before June next year.

Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron delivers a speech to the CBI annual conference at the Park Lane Hilton hotel in London last week.
Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron delivers a speech to the CBI annual conference at the Park Lane Hilton hotel in London last week.   (Getty Images)
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Right now, it's political junkies talking, but if Cameron is driving through the gates of Downing Street that will raise eyebrows about how he did it. - Republican political consultant
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Nov 27, 09 8:50 AM CST
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Nov 27, 09 3:00 PM CST
Nope. Centrism in Europe is liberlism. Liberalism in any form is a dismal failure. The only path for power is in conservatism.
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Nov 27, 09 3:11 PM CST
It must be a good path to something DLY. ...it's clearly not a good path to government,stability, growth, balance, etc. You aren't winning dick without the center.
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With a strong conservative leader who communicates effectively, the center will come along. GWB was neither a good leader nor a conservative.
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Nov 27, 09 8:51 AM CST
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