@ThatcheriteSteve? Nope.

This really does warm the cockles of my heart.

I joked earlier on twitter, that every government needs a sycophant in the @BevaniteEllie mould and that I was applying for the new position. But I'm afraid that there will be no @ThatcheriteSteve or @DisraeliSteve.

This government is a coalition - and it is one that, as a progressive liberal Conservative, I am very pleased with. I would hope that, like a magpie, the Conservatives will be able to pick off the shiny pieces of LibDem policy while maintaining our broad, positive agenda for reform, restraint and responsibility. David Cameron has done much to reform the Conservative Party, but I have never denied that there is still much left to do.

Although no details of the coalition have come into the public realm yet, I hope and believe that the Conservative Party, with the help of Nick Clegg, can move further into the centre ground of British politics.

There will be people on all sides who do not want this, and they will no doubt get their way some of the time. There will be, in Parliament as in the Conservative Party, constant heated debate. This is why I will not tow any party line or religiously defend our new Prime Minister with the zeal that some defended the last. To aid this program of progressive reform, we need a loud, proud and clear voice within the Conservative Party. I, along with others, shall seek to provide that voice.