Tories crown Cameron their new leader
David Cameron has become the new Conservative party leader in the UK, beating his rival David Davis by a bigger than expected margin of more than two to one.
When the result of the 198,844 votes cast was announced today at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly, Mr Cameron received 134,446 votes to Mr Davis’s 64,398.
Mr Cameron, accepting his new role, said he would offer “a more compassionate Conservatism right for our times and right for our country”.
“We needed to change in order to win. Now that I have won, we will change,” he added, pledging to undo the “scandalous” under-representation of women in the party.
“I love this country as it is, not as it was,” Mr Cameron said, and promised to reject the “Punch and Judy” show aspects of Westminster politics, and to support Tony Blair‘s government when the Tories agreed with it.
Source: Guardian Online.
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