"Superficiality, unreliability and an apparent lack of any clear convictions": the View of David Cameron from a Tory MP

Conservative MP Quentin Davies, has defected from the Conservative Party, slamming the record of Conservative leader David Cameron. In his resignation letter, Quentin Davies said:

"Under your leadership the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything.

"It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.

"Although you have many positive qualities you have three, superficiality, unreliability and an apparent lack of any clear convictions, which in my view ought to exclude you from the position of national leadership to which you aspire and which it is the presumed purpose of the Conservative Party to achieve.

"Believing that as I do, I clearly cannot honestly remain in the party. I do not intend to leave public life."

Quentin Davies, who represents the Melton & Rutland seat in Parliament, has joined the Labour Party. Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell's Chief of Staff, Edward Davey MP said:

"This is the final nail in the coffin for the notion that David Cameron has any policies of substance.

"When even Tory backbenchers find David Cameron's PR spin too much to stomach it is clear his honeymoon is over."