Downing street is not quite sure what to make of the astonishing rise of David Cameron. A grizzled prime ministerial adviser remarked this week that it had happened so fast it was difficult to take entirely seriously. He contrasted the excitement Mr Cameron's leadership campaign has generated, thanks to a well handled press launch and a polished conference speech, with the real policy battles that Tony Blair, as a rising frontbench spokesman of similar age, fought over several years to make his party electable. He also doubted whether the Conservative Party's sudden enthusiasm for Mr Cameron came close to matching Labour's commitment to change in the early 1990s.
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