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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Weekend feature: The curse of Tory Boy |
 | | In fact, the libertarian Tory Boy wasn't really a Tory at all, more like the natural precursor to today's neocon, so it's something of an irony that this caricature is the one that has bedevilled image-makers at Conservative central office ever since. |
 | | Encompassing such a broad spectrum of the right, Tory Boy was inevitably an uneasy hybrid, but it was less what he said than the strident way in which he said it that was consistently unhelpful to the party. |
 | | Given that Tory support is weakest among young and women voters, it is a makeover the party must well hope for, but despite some very strong female candidates, for now the role models are mainly male. |
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