David Cameron on Newsnight
I thought he was rather good. I note that Scoopism is pretty well dead in British politics, suggesting Michael Gove isn't making much headway. His answer to the question on exporting democracy, however, would have been better if he'd just said at one point that there really isn't much the UK PM can do about many situations in far away countries, and 'do no harm' is a good starting point.
On marriage, he would have perhaps been better to talk about external costs and benefits, and suggested that IDS's marriage bribe could be seen as aligning the social benefits with the private benefits. Then the criticism from Stephanie Flanders would have been as sensible (which is not to say it is not) as criticism of tax on petrol.
When he mentioned the pensions system, I would have asked him whether he would simply reinstate the dividend tax credit if it was that simple.
posted by Matthew @ 8/30/2007 08:04:00 AM
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