David Cameron negotiates rightward steer

Janan Ganesh, writing in the Financial Times, isn't so sure. "The Tory campaign was itself a homage to Ukip, with its strident candidate and its plundering of the old tropes of Europe and immigration". (Some Conservative leaflets even borrowed Ukip colours). To keep order in his party Cameron will be forced to make continual concessions to the right, "a referendum here, tough talk on human rights there". The chance to modernise the Tories has gone, argues Ganesh. Now Cameron must hope his buy-offs of the right "will not add up to a noxious electoral offering" by 2015.

The Times's Rachel Sylvester reprimands the Tory traditionalist wing that refuses to recognise Cameron's inherent Conservatism - and seems spiritually paired with Ukip. "The Tory leader is far more Conservative than liberal", she writes. Conservatives need to accept some modernisation is necessary if they are to present a viable choice in 2015. Hardliners will have to cut Cameron some slack.

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