Alan Duncan: How David Cameron Saved the Conservative Party

As David Cameron drew his valedictory Prime Minister’s Questions to a close on Wednesday afternoon, he paraphrased a barb he himself had delivered to Tony Blair during his first outing as Leader of the Opposition more than a decade earlier in 2005. ‘He was the future once’ the boyish Cameron had quipped at Blair, who had swept to power on a wave of national optimism in 1997 but was by then visibly worn down by the weight of office.