grammar schools: When Cameron resigned as Witney MP – only a few weeks after insisting he planned to stay at least until 2020 – he muttered about not wanting to get in his successor way, according to The Guardian. The immediate speculation was that he was furious that his successor wanted to bring back grammar schools. But then, it is not quite clear which Conservative party is campaigning here: the pro-European, socially liberal party of David Cameron, or the inward-looking, xenophobic small-c conservative Brexiteering party of Theresa May. But there are plenty of grounds for supposing that there is a much more fundamental rift between himself and May. Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, campaigning in Witney last week, said he thought Cameron would be mortified by the way his successor trashed his record. He told friends that he didn't want to be another Ted Heath, the party leader deposed in 1975 who sat on the Tory backbenches for 20 years – the embodiment of opposition to Margaret Thatcher.
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