Can Michael Howard win them back?
Andrew Johnson and Annabel Fallon talk to some of those he must woo The gay Tory Ivan Massow, businessman and former party member I left the party in 2000 because of intolerance, but it has improved massively since I left. Iain Duncan Smith has done really good groundwork, quietly. There are more gay candidates and more women candidates. True Conservatives now are much more libertarian. The party has put the offensive moral judgements, all that family values stuff, firmly behind them. Many Asians, for example, are natural Conservatives; they are entrepreneurs and work hard, but they have all moved to Labour because the Tories were “nasty” and “scary” people. But now the party has a good leader with gravitas who can take everybody with him. I think Michael Howard is the sort of person who could tempt someone like me back to the party. The wealthy libertarian Nick Bancroft, fund manager, lives in Holland Park and Buckinghamshire Broadly speaking, the Tories do, I suppose, represent my wo
