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DAVID Cameron insisted there would be no retreat to the comfort zone of traditional Right-wing policies yesterday as he prepared for a confrontation with his Tory critics. He insisted the party would not move off the centre ground and had every chance of winning the next election. But backbench MPs uneasy at the Tories poor showing in last weeks by-elections and Mr Camerons leadership style are to raise their concerns at a meeting later this week. The unrest may have gone even further with claims that a handful of MPs want a vote of no confidence in the Tory leader, who has been bruised by internal warfare over grammar schools, a Brown bounce in the polls and the partys third-place showing in two polls last week. The new Prime Ministers revival of Labours fortunes was underlined yesterday by a poll showing the party breaking through the 40 per cent barrier for the first time in two years.
The Mori survey put Labour on 41 per cent up two points from a similar poll a month ago the Tories down one on 35 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on a dismal 15 per cent. There were reports yesterday that at least two MPs and possibly as many as six haveSee the full content of this document
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Tories Will Not Retreat to the Comfort Zone, Vows Cameron
written to the chairman of the partys 1922 backbench committee to request a no confidence vote. Letters from 29 MPs are needed for this to take ...
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