After suffering two consecutive and humiliating General Election defeats at the hand of the Labour party the Conservatives are now lead by [Iain Duncan Smith]?, a relative unknown until his sudden and somewhat suprising selection in preference to the former Chancellor, [Ken Clarke]?. Iain Duncan Smith is a strong eurosceptic; although he supports continued membership in the European Union, he opposes the UK ever joining the Euro, unlike his predecessor [William Hague]?, who opposed joining the Euro for the term of the next parliament, without absolutely ruling out joining it in the future. Ken Clarke by contrast was a moderate europhile. The victory of Iain Duncan Smith over Ken Clarke was primarily due to eurosceptic forces within the party. (The mass membership of the party is highly eurosceptic.) Iain Duncan Smith has filled his shadow cabinet with Eurosceptics, generally pushed the party further to the right, and alienated many pro-euro and moderate Tories. Some believe that the party has turned so far right that they have given up their centre-right position through which they survived and are now destined for oblivion. This paragraph needs to be rewritten to make more sense.
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