Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories Took Britain to the Brink
Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Guardian Faber, 314pp, £9.99
When Conservative MPs discuss the next general election, they frequently assert that they “deserve to win”. They believe that their record merits the parliamentary majority they failed to secure in 2010. Such is the conviction with which they state their achievements – the halving of the deficit, a record number in employment, the highest-ever level of GDP – that even non-Tories are prone to ask whether the government’s opponents have exaggerated its defects.
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