Although it appeals both to Mr Lilley and to Daniel Finkelstein, who heads the party's research office, there are other influential Tories who fear that too big a shift in ideas or vocabulary will destroy what little support the party has retained.

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She insists she is happy, "because what they destroy we can rebuild, unlike if a friend or a relative, a father or a child, is killed".

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