Malcolm Rifkind says the Conservative Party is deeply defective.

What’s defective about it?

I offer these clips from Sunday Telegraph interview by means of clues:

“The choice is whether we continue down the cul-de-sac of the last eight years or whether we choose an alternative conservative tradition.”

… criticised the party’s concentration on “classic Right-wing Conservative issues” such as immigration, asylum, Europe, crime and tax.

“We need to be asking who will be acceptable to the public as an alternative to Gordon Brown.”

This is the wrong thinking that has led to the Conservative Party’s last three election defeats. It is the abandonment of strong, instinctive English conservatism in favour of prostration at the feet of the focus groups.

And these are all quotes from one Malcolm Rifkind.