Geoffrey Wheatcroft in The Guardian has this to say about one British Conservative who favors the Anglo-American alliance:

Iraq might have made Tories hesitate before continuing to cheer the US, but Stephen Crabb does just that. The MP was in Washington at the time of Cameron’s speech, where, he said, there was “disappointment expressed”. Many would have taken that as a compliment, but not Crabb, who says in best Vichy spirit: “We do need to be careful about how the Americans see us.”

“In best Vichy spirit“!? Wheatcroft goes on to suggest that arch-imperialist Lord Curzon might be a better Tory than current MP Michael Gove:

In his day Curzon might have seemed the truer Tory than Balfour, and it’s only recently that his spirit has been stifled in his old party. That is all the more so with the arrival of MPs such as Crabb, Carswell, and the egregious Michael Gove, the Times columnist and MP for Surrey Heath, a copy of whose Muslim-bashing diatribe Celsius 7/7 is given to every lucky person who joins the CFI (Consefvative Friends of Israel).

Both Curzon and Gove were Presidents of the Oxford Union, but Curzon attained his position because it was an expected part of the cursus honorum for him, while Michael swept all before him with his oratory. I find it interesting that a Guardian columnist should find the old imperial grandee so appealing rather than a lad from Aberdeen who has used his natural talents to climb up to a position that Curzon would look down on. In many ways, The Guardian might be appealing to Curzon too: it advocates a paternalist world-view where the lower orders don’t know what’s good for them.