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Michael Howard doesn't strike me as being a great leader, so I'm not entirely sure if I would want him as PM. I know Blair's made a rather large number of... errors, we'll call them, yet I think with a reduction of Labour and more Lib Dems and Tories in Parliament, perhaps these errors would be decreased and fixed with the lack of own-party support.
He doesn't strike me as an especially great leader either, but I've seen plenty of Parliamentary sessions where he has torn strips from Tony Blair in the debates, so it looks like he is at least quick-witted enough to handle Parliament and the Media. He was the Home Secretary in the last Conservative government, so he has held a Ministerial position before, so I do have some confidence in him as a Prime Minister - at least to be better than Gordon Brown (It's only a matter of time) - although I somewhat doubt we will ever see it.
I haven't really watched many recent Parliamentary sessions to be honest, been too busy pretending revising. Though I didn't know he was the Home Secretary under John Major, though I really don't know a great deal about many politicians. Experience is always good. Though what I have seen of Howard is promising. Howver, it is much easier to be the Leader of the Opposition though. Let's face, it Blair says he'd put 5000 more policemen on the streets, Howard says he'd put 5500. Just to give a made-up example.

About Brown, he's really one of those people I don't like in politics. There's just things about him that I really dislike. Such as the little fits he was throwing about Blair stepping down so he could be Labour party leader. I don't like the idea of someone being the leader of something merely for the title when it should be the responsibility and the want to do good that should earn it. I'd much prefer Howard or Kennedy to Brown.

One thing I really thing the Conservative party need to do is actually branch out to more common people. The public generally have a view of the Conservatives as being more "upper class". What has worked for Labour in the past is generally being seen as more accessable and supportive of the average British person, like they were in the past, yet in reality they aren't really doing that much good. Things such as University top-ups and the NHS are certainly things that aren't going in Labour's favour.