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Cameron's bid to de-toff the Tories backfires as candidate tells leader: I like my double-barrelled name
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| Author | Glen Owen and Brendan Carlin |
| Media | Newspaper - Daily Mail |
| News Date | Monday, November 30, 2009 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conservative candidates are under pressure to drop aristocratic-sounding names to play down the blue-blooded image of David Cameron’s party, it was claimed last night.
But the move – dubbed ‘Dave’s Tory De-toff’ by critics – has prompted complaints from some who claim it is another example of the party’s pre-occupation with public relations.
The Conservative leader, who wears his Old Etonian background lightly and is known as Dave by friends, asked one candidate, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, to change her double-barrelled name to Nancy Mogg. |
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