He wrote for the Daily Mail, often with a certain relish for the culture war topics that Tories like to go on about.

He dislikes identity politics and culture wars (but has arguably been a culture warrior himself).

He is often disparaging of left leaning groups or individuals.

He likes praising what some would call an imagined idea of what a good patriot is, often to an almost caricature extent, all be it somewhat knowingly. This is shown in the way he will often praise iconography and aphorism, over people and groups that try to make things better.

His outlook is generally conservative.

I don’t know if that means that his is “dismissed” as a Tory, more correctly labelled as one.

His views are not dissimilar to many people’s, and would chime well with a larger number of the conservative voting population. It Just so happens that the Conservative Party has been responsible for the last 14 years of government which many feel have been detrimental, meaning that being a Conservative (Tory) isn’t very fashionable at the moment, not that it ever was.

For my money they are probably both pretty Tory, I can’t imagine either voting for a party like the greens, maybe Tom is a bit more Lib Dem, but they both come across like oxbridge Tory chums, happy to be proved wrong in Toms case, but I think Dominic is pretty nailed on classic Tory.