Tory Leader, David CameronThe Conservative Party in Great Britain elected 39 year old David Cameron as its new leader. Cameron is the party’s fifth leader since Margaret Thatcher who was forced to step down in 1990 by her own Party members. The Tories have lost the last three elections. Cameron calls himself a "modernizer" and has borrowed a page out of the George Bush political playbook by styling himself a "compassionate conservative".

Cameron had his first "exchange" with Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday in the House of Commons. BBC reports on Cameron’s first day at Tory leader.

Our guest national security analyst, Steve D, is not particularly thrilled with Cameron’s emergence as the new leader of the Conservatives in Great Britain. Here is his take on Cameron:

"The Tories are so desperate to regain power that they are willing to abandon what remains of their roots and principles in order to promote themselves as compassionate, chic, and progressive. This is known as trying to be more Left than the Left. If you read what Cameron is advocating, it is substantially the same as what Labour has been giving Britain under Blair, which has not been fundamentally different than what the Tories had been delivering – an effort to carry the unimpressive record of John Major even further, chasing the Labour and Liberal Democrats in their retreat from Thatcherism. Why the British would elect a very inexperienced left-leaning Conservative when they can elect a more experienced left-leaning Labourite is a mystery. Unless, of course, the Conservative "inner circle" is viewing the next election as a beauty contest between two substantially indistinguishable alternatives, and they are nominating the person most likely to come across looking like a telly actor portraying a prime minister."

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