In response to Kathy Gyngell: Whittingdale backs away from putting the BBC in its place, JonBW wrote:
The current Tory leadership is either far too gutless to stand up for conservative values in the face of the liberal elite or too influenced by the ideology of the liberal establishment actually to believe that it should do so.
Either way, we should recognise that the election in May did not produce a Conservative government in any meaningful sense of the term.