David Cameron 'angered US conservatives' with 'unprecedented' election-year embrace of Barack Obama
Ain't that just so sad?
The Republican Party’s shift to the Right, reflected by the rise of the Tea Party movement during the mid-term elections in 2010, has left it out of step with the Conservative Party on issues such as taxation, health care and rights for same-sex couples. Mr Cameron’s party is more in line with the Democrats in several areas.
Some British Tories continue to cultivate links. Greg Hands, the MP for Chelsea and Fulham, hosted Rick Scott, the Republican Governor of Florida, at the Houses of Parliament earlier this month. Mr Hands, who was born in New York, is himself a registered Republican in the US.
However, relations between transatlantic conservatives are a far cry from their 1980s heyday, when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher presented a united front - despite Mr Romney adapting Lady Thatcher’s famous “Labour isn’t working” election poster this year to claim: “Obama isn't working”.
Boris Johnson, the Conservative London mayor, has spoken of his admiration for Bill Clinton, the previous Democratic president, saying the “world was better run under him” and describing aspects of George W Bush’s leadership style as “terrible”.
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