TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

When David Cameron appeared before the party faithful many moons ago, he promised to deliver them to government – all they had to do was trust him and make him leader of the party.

Today, with talk of a plot being hatched by Theresa May and Phillip Hammond, after a poor by-election showing at Eastleigh, all of which coming on top of the devastating indictment of how his chancellor has handled the economy, Cameron’s position as leader of his party is looking increasingly untenable.

Indeed, today’s appearance before the ballot box at Prime Minister’s Question Time reminded one observer of the dying days of the Gordon Brown government.

The opposition fired salvos to the increasing frustration and annoyance of the  once so self-assured and even cocky Prime Minister.

Truth is Cameron was on shaky ground from the moment the results of the 2010 election announced and he had not delivered the resounding victory that he and his media friends has promised and expected to the very faithful he had so memorably spoken to on the day of the contest for the leader of the opposition.

Trouble is he may have also have done the Conservative Party long-term damage – for they were not popular before they got into Downing Street and certainly are not now, given the speed at which they set about putting this country through the toughest cuts since age of Thatcher.