For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace

The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’It’s a thought. A bold one. Possibly a career-ending one. But a thought nonetheless. When Theresa May told the Tory conference in 2002 that under Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives had become “the Nasty party”, many members took that to mean they had become undesirable. Within a few years, David Cameron had moved the Tories closer to the “hug a husky” centre and by 2010 he was prime minister.Kemi Bade