News Analysis Although Erin O’Toole set himself apart from his Conservative predecessors by endorsing multiple policies and positions aligned with progressive values, he didn’t fare any better than Andrew Scheer did in the 2019 election. “I think that if O’Toole actually was the kind of conservative that he said he was when he gained leadership, he would have done a lot better,” University of Calgary political science professor Barry Cooper told The Epoch Times. “He ran as a ‘True Blue’ Conservative to gain the leadership, but that now seems to be completely tactical because he sure as heck didn’t run like a blue Conservative. He ran like a light Liberal.” Cooper believes O’Toole could have gained more support from working-class voters if he had maintained more conservative principles, just as Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher successfully did in the UK decades ago. Malcolm Bird, a political science professor at the …