How David Cameron was inspired by Neville Chamberlain
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It is also fun, as one laps up Chris Patten's elegant prose, to try to read between his lines. Lord Patten was director while Mrs Thatcher was Leader of the Opposition. He was not, to put it mildly, in favour of her, nor she of him, though she had a high regard for his skills as a speech-writer. She quickly sacked his patron, Ian Gilmour, from the chairmanship of the CRD, and turned for policy...