I know nothing of Toby Young son of Labour Life Peer Michael Young – The Guardian’s John Crace writes.

Young has been described as a lot of things in his career: a jobbing confessional hack and failed screenwriter; megalomaniacal fantasist, obnoxious opportunist and tireless self-publicist among them. Source: The Guardian.

A perfect Tory in my book – unlike his father who started the Open University. So why a sudden interest I Young? His crumb of comfort to The Spectator’s editor Fraser Nelson’s 2010 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture Winning is not Enough which urges Cameron to embrace a more radical Conservative agenda.

Fraser joins a long list of people who are hoping against hope that, on entering Downing Street, Cameron will cast off his Clark Kent disguise and emerge as a kind of Super Tory, imposing the very same “swingeing cuts” that he decried on the Politics Show last Sunday. They want him to be the opposite of Barack Obama: instead of campaigning in poetry and governing in prose, they grudgingly accept the need for him to campaign in prose but fervently hope he will govern as a true blue, movement Conservative.

I can offer one small crumb of comfort to Fraser. I was two years above Cameron at Brasenose, also studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and would occasionally engage him in debate about the political issues of the day. This was in 1985 in the aftermath of the miners’ strike and I can report that, back then at least, he was a dry-as-dust Thatcherite. He was a braying, triumphalist Conservative who made no concessions to the leftwing atmosphere of Oxford in the mid-80s — no hint of the Wet he was to become. If the child is the father of the man, Fraser can rest easy. Source: The Telegraph.

Which is exactly what many of us on the left suspected Cameron’s nothing more than an airbrushed Thatcherite.

Hat Tip: The Novcastrian.