摘要：Until recently it was easy for many in the Australian Liberal Party—apparently safe in their possession of government—to mock British Conservative leader David Cameron. His concern for the environment and climate change, along with poverty in the developing world, and social exclusion seemed to mark him as a classic ‘wet’, if not an outright leftist.
But before passing judgement on David Cameron and his band of Tory modernisers it is necessary to understand just how far the Conservative party has fallen out of favour with the British public in the past ten years and how unprecedented this fall was.
