A Conservative Party for all

I found yesterday’s Guardian interview with Shadow Chancellor George Osborne both useful and positive on several levels.

He was right to be frank in pointing out that a new Conservative Government will not be able to deliver everything it wants to deliver because of the financial mess it will inherit from Labour.

However, he was able to balance this very necessary health warning with a promise to find a way out of the mess by moving the country away from Gordon Brown’s obsession with taxing everything in sight.

He also spoke of the need to alleviate poverty, describing raising the opportunities and aspirations of Britain's so-called “underclass” as “the great challenge of our age.”

His comments on the latter, although consistent with the approach taken by the Party since David Cameron became leader, are nonetheless very reassuring for those who still doubt our commitment to becoming a Conservative Party for all, not just the few.

And, on solving the nation’s economic difficulties, his words are both honest and spin free – as they tend to be.

Interviews like this make my job, as a Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, very straightforward.