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On the right, Norman Tebbit, former Chairman of the Conservative Party, has likened Cameron to Pol Pot, " intent on purging even the memory of Thatcherism before building a New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party ".

Quentin Davies MP, who defected from the Conservatives to Labour on 26 June 2007, branded him " superficial, unreliable and an apparent lack of any clear convictions " and stated that David Cameron had turned the Conservative Party's mission into a " PR agenda ".

Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens has written that, " Mr Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left ", by embracing social liberalism and has dubbed the party under his leadership " Blue Labour ", a pun on New Labour.

Cameron responded by calling Hitchens a " maniac ".

Daily Telegraph correspondent and blogger Gerald Warner has been particularly scathing about Cameron's leadership, arguing that it is alienating traditionalist conservative elements from the Conservative Party.