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Cato Podcast

The Labour-Tory Blur

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2006

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome. This is Anastasia Yuglova bringing you the Cato Daily Podcast.

0:04.4

Be sure to log on to our website W.W. dot kato.org for a full archive of our

0:10.0

podcast as well as many other audio offerings.

0:14.2

At yesterday's Tory Party Conference, party leader David Cameron delivered a speech that promised

0:18.8

to unify and clarify the conservative message to the British electorate.

0:23.0

A new rebranding is underway in the Tory bid to win back the majority as they move closer to center and, ironically, closer to the new labor opposition.

0:32.0

How can voters know right from left?

0:34.0

Here it is sort it out a bit,

0:36.0

is Cato's director of media relations Jamie Detmer,

0:39.0

who has previously worked as both a journalist and broadcaster

0:42.0

serving on a staffs of the Times of London and the Sunday

0:44.4

Telegraph.

0:46.5

What was on the agenda this week for Conservatives at the Party Conference?

0:50.3

For the Party manages to further define their new leader David Cameron for the British electorate,

0:55.5

to try to continue the process of persuading British voters that the Conservatives are ready to be an alternative in government to labor.

1:03.6

There's a subtext here as well.

1:05.1

They're trying to make themselves appear

1:06.6

the party of the future as opposed to the party of the future

1:07.8

as opposed to the party of the past.

1:10.1

So we've had some very bizarre things for conservatives so we haven't really associated with them in the past of

1:15.4

Cameron the party leader trying to embrace the MySpace generation, the YouTube generation.

1:21.4

He's even got a website where you can see him in the morning making

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