For this personal project, David had unparalleled access over six years to the political lives of the senior members of the British Tory party. He has documented their decline and fall, in images that are as intimate as you can get with people as self-aware as modern politicians.

Here we see the Tories up close, facing the press, in the broadcasting studio, waiting in the wings of the conferences and on the stump, meeting the electorate. Here are pedagogues and eccentrics, both in the leadership and in their supporters; the declining constituency of upper middle class Britons with their unchanging ways.

Here are fund-raising dinners; William Hague looking like a Dalek at a conference; Michael Portillo's smarmy, smirking smiles; Ann Widdecombe trying to be a populist; and Margaret Thatcher, the influence that they can't shake off.

David Modell's accompanying book ,Tory Story, is available from the Festival