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| | 'Nasty party' warning to Tories | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics |
 | | The Conservative leadership yesterday launched itself into a frenzy of self-reproach as it struggled to shed the image of Britain's "nasty party" which has sunk into corruption, incestuous feuding and the electorally disastrous exclusion of women and minorities. |
 | | As a shadow cabinet colleague, Oliver Letwin, denounced the party's "weird" reliance on white, male MPs, another measure of the desperation which grips the Tories 16 months after their second crushing election defeat came from a former party research chief. |
 | | Andrew Lansley, the MP for South Cambridgeshire who was one of the "Portillista" modernisers who refused to serve in the Duncan Smith team, uses an article in today's Guardian to urge the leadership to consider changing the party's name to Reform Conservatives, an implicit tribute to Tony Blair's New Labour. |
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