Can Iain Duncan Smith survive as leader of the Conservative Party? And can the Conservative party survive with him as its leader?
There is a very interesting article today in the Daily Telegraph by Rachel Sylvester, questioning the likelihood of Mr Duncan Smith remaining leader. One quote (which rings very true with me): "The truth is Iain knows with his head that we've got to modernise but in his heart he's a traditionalist," one shadow cabinet minister told me yesterday. "He's dithering and it's time for him to come off the fence."
The Guardian carries another opinion piece today by Ed Vaisey, which makes many of the same points but of course emphasising, as a left-of-centre newspaper, the left-right dichotomy of British politics.
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