Perhaps my greatest misgivings over Cameron relate to his experience. With only four years experience as an MP & even less as Shadow Education Secretary will he have what it takes to weather the forthcoming storm from the Nu Labour spin & media manipulation machine?

In the complete absence of any hard & fast policy specifics, what do we really know about the boy wonder? Well, born in 1966, David William Duncan Cameron, he shares names with two other recent Tory leaders – William Vague & the quiet man Ian Duncan Smith – both of whom enjoyed such overwhelming electoral success … not! So, we can’t take any heart in his given names bestowing any great political legacy, despite having a number of former MPs as ancestors (his great, great, great grandfather, William Mount, was Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight in the 19th Century. Cameron's great, great grandfather, also called William Mount, sat for Newbury, before passing the seat on to his son Sir William Mount, the first baronet & Cameron's great grandfather. ) Hardly man of the people sort of stuff is it?

After prep school & Eton, he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford where he definitely absolutely didn’t do any drugs which must have set him somewhat apart from his peers & the peerage in particular. However, he did find time to be a member of the Bullingdon dining club, which is noted for its hard drinking & generally robust behaviour. So maybe Cameron agrees with my little Toni’s changes to the UK’s licensing legislation … but he wouldn’t be drawn on that particular point, or any other point come to that.

After getting his degree Cameron with the benefit of his experience of errrrrrrrr spending three months in Hong Kong, working for a shipping agent, he went to work for the Conservative Party’s Research Department – briefing such highly successful politicians as John Major, before going to work for that paradigm of financial virtue, then Chancellor Norman Lamont as a political adviser just as sterling went into free fall over its exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism & Black Wednesday plunged the country into recession. Lets just hope for all our sakes that Norman didn’t teach him any fiscal tricks.

In the finest traditions of the perennially ambitious, Cameron decided to go into industry - but not for him the drudgery of a West Midlands metal basher or the cut & thrust of a City trading floor - oh no – much better to spend seven years at Carlton, as head of corporate communications because that gives you a lot of exposure of real life. Whilst Carlton boss Michael Green rated him,

"I tried to persuade him that he could have a really good career in industry, but he was completely resolute about going back to politics, and I respected him for that. He's good, he's the real McCoy,"

one or two of the journalists that dealt with him had a slightly different perspective, Jeff Randall of the Daily Telegraph famously commented that said he would not trust Cameron

"with my daughter's pocket money" &

"To describe Cameron's approach to corporate PR as unhelpful and evasive overstates by a widish margin the clarity & plain-speaking that he brought to the job of being Michael Green's mouthpiece. In my experience, Cameron never gave a straight answer when dissemblance was a plausible alternative, which probably makes him perfectly suited for the role he now seeks: the next Tony Blair,"

The Sun’s business editor is unsurprisingly a little more forthright about this part of Cameron’s career, describing him as a

"poisonous, slippery individual".

which is I admit a little rich coming from a tabloid journalist, but whatever. If Cameron does in fact possess those two qualities then he is superbly equipped to be an MP.

However, scanning though all he has done thus far I see little to give me confidence that he has ever had any contact with what those of us mere mortals might consider to approximate to reality. Time will tell & todays Prime Minster’s question time will be very very interesting. For me, the jury is still out & I remain sceptical that he has what it takes to return a Conservative government to power. I am however absolutely convinced that Cameron has what it takes to turn the Tory party into a slightly better spoken version of Nu Labour which we collectively need like a hole in the head.