The Telegraph, long seen as the organ of the Conservative Party, has fallen out of favour with the new Tory guard.

And the latter are loudly making their views known, no doubt to hope the paper will fall in line with the Cameroon project.

Take, for example, Guido Fawkes’ post on the Spectator party (now the favoured organ thanks to unflinching loyalty):

Bizarrely scheduled against the premier party (Guido saw Telegraph hacks at the Speccie party) it shows just how out of touch the Telegraph is with the party it once had a monopoly on reporting.

A familiar face approached as Guido exited, he extended his hand, Guido shook his hand, slurred a “hello”, and smiled. God knows what Fraser thought as his star guest, David Cameron, moved down the blue carpet towards him.

How chummy. Grayling, Dorries and now Cameron must have Paul Staines on speed-dial.

The meme that the Telegraph is “out of touch” with the party is now constantly pushed by the new right.

Most prominently, ConservativeHome has repeatedly attacked it for not being supportive enough. Some headlines:

The Telegraph makes more mischief

The Mail and Telegraph fail their readers (it’s Cameron’s job to change that)

The Telegraph to Cameron: Dare to be unpopular

These attacks on the Telegraph’s criticisms of Cameron has been going on for a while.

In July Guido Fawkes wrote that it lost £200,000 a week and called it “The Daily Labourgraph”. Hilarious.

Tim Montgomerie picked up the baton and asked: Whatever happened to The Telegraph’s coverage of the Conservatives?

The Telegraph was once THE party of Tory coverage but no longer. The only thing it covered from the ConIntelligence conference was a feature on women candidates (and, I am told, only because it would be accompanied by some glamorous photographs). The Telegraph has abandoned its position as the journal for Tory news and at a time when coverage of the Conservative Party hasn’t been so important for a generation.

More recently he revived this theme by polling readers. Surprise surprise:

In particular, Simon Heffer was singled out for his continual criticisms of David Cameron.

Things to note: how the right are playing to each other’s themes in attacking the Telegraph, clearly hoping it will become more supportive of Cameron. Discipline is important you know.

Also note how, despite his continual protestations that he’s not pro-Tory, Paul Staines is playing along.

I wonder how the Telegraph will react.

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