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Britain's Boy Wonder
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Feb 01, 2007 01:42am |
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| Category | Profile |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By CATHERINE MAYER
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007
Britain's leader of the opposition isn't a typical alpha male. He's the kind of guy who pauses before biting into a muffin. "I really shouldn't," he says during a day of campaigning in Scotland. "I'm fat." That's not true, but like many an Englishman who ingested stodgy food at boarding school, David Cameron, 40, the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, lacks sharp angles. His telegenic appeal has propelled the Tories to a consistent lead in opinion polls for the first time since Tony Blair's 1997 victory. That has infused Britain's Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha — the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle — are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron's campaign team: "People sniff Camelot." |
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