Is Cameron's honeymoon over already?

11.42.02am GMT Mon 12th Dec 2005

Although David Cameron was only elected last Tuesday, there are signs that his honeymoon could soon be over. Disappointing Polls, a threaten resignation from an MEP and a euro-split rearing it head again could mark the fastest end to the beginning or beginning to the end for the boy David.

Two opinion polls over the weekend have put the Conservatives in the lead again, an ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph had them on 37% of the vote, a 2 point lead over Labour, while a YouGov poll in the Sunday Times again gave them 37% but just a 1 point lead. This should seem like good news but I would have thought they should have had a bigger lead with the constant exposure over the last few months and Blair still attempting to the most unpopular Prime Minister ever. If I was Cameron and the Conservative Party I would be disappointed with these polls, particularly as one of the polls actually show an 2% increase in the Liberal Democrat vote!

It emerged over the weekend the only female Conservative MEP, Caroline Jackson, has threatened to resign if Cameron carries through his threat of withdrawing the Conservative Party from the European People's Party in the European Parliament. Many of the Conservative MEPs are privately (and some publicly) opposed to such a move - it remains to be seen if Cameron does follow through on one of his few public policy statements.

Former leadership candidate Ken Clarke has warned that Cameron could become the most extreme Eurosceptic leader the Tories have ever had. He told the BBC Politics Show that he feared Mr Cameron was too committed to the plan, but warned that "waltzing off" looking for new "ultra-nationalist" allies would be a disastrous way for the leader to announce himself on the world stage.

Even Cameron's plans for increasing the number of women and ethnic minority MPs has started to come under fire from existing and also prospective MPs, some accusing the proposed new system of discriminating against those who have worked in seats of for the party for a long time. Selection is to be frozen and all target seats and seats where the MP is retiring will have to choose a candidate from a 140-strong list with at least half the candidates on that list will be women.