Tories Wet, Dry, and Historic.

The article discusses former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday, and its implications for the current Tory leadership. It gives highlights of the party that was attended by the Queen and by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The qualifications of the current candidates for leader of the Tory Party are reviewed. Liam Fox is described as a tough, direct, and eloquent medical doctor who is probably the most pro-American British politician. David Davis is described as an orthodox Thatcherite who happens to be the working class son of a single mother. David Cameron is described as an old style Tory from a good family and the candidate of the modernizing tendency. The article refers to the fact that Blair is now advancing reforms of health and education that imitate Thatcherite ideas of private provision and market solutions in the public sector.