||1:Yet the tribes are important, and revealing of the Conservative Party’s state.||2:Tim Bale, author of two books on the party after 1945, notes that cliques have previously shifted the entire Conservative encampment.||3:In the 1950s the One Nation Group swung the party behind a mixed economy.Under Margaret Thatcher, cerebral MPs around the Centre for Policy Studies led it the other way.||4:Mr Cameron rose to the leadership on the shoulders of a small number of young, ambitious modernisers .
||1:At present the radical modernisers are best placed to steer the party.||2:The Free Enterprise Group, seen as their vanguard, has a simple message: government should remove barriers in the way of business.||3:Dominated by media-savvy professional types, it knows how to communicate this mantra.||4:It has Mr Osborne’s ear, as well as some support from other tendencies in the party.||5:It seems to be swaying the leader: Mr Cameron’s speech this week was big on business-worship.