Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“If Gordon Brown’s fate has been to resemble not just one but several Shakespearean tragic heroes – cursed in his relationship with Tony Blair by a jealousy worthy of Othello, racked in the first months of his premiership by the indecision of Hamlet – then today he was Macbeth, seemingly playing out his final act. [...]

“A fiasco, disgrace and utter failure”
- how Jackie Ashley, Jonathan Freedland, Martin Kettle, Seumas Milne and Henry Porter described Tony Blair’s day at the Chilcot Inquiry (full article HERE)

Dear Jonathan Freeland,
Your article on Comment is Free this morning has nicely captured some of the confusion that currently surrounds political life in the UK.  No-one is entirely sure what will happen for the rest of 2008, let alone 2009, but this uncertainty is breeding talk of an election next year.  For the last year [...]