Scrutiny: It's Time for Timid Tories to Tell Us Where Cuts Can Be Made

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DAVID Cameron lost it last week. At Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, as he asked Gordon Brown about the Government's response to the tragic death of Baby P, the Conservative leader suddenly veered away from the meticulous, overworked script upon which modern political leaders now tend to rely (literally - he threw it from the dispatch box) and simply gave vent to raw, fierce, finger-stabbing anger.

There was talk in Westminster tearooms afterwards that the Tory leader had rather gone over the top. This just goes to show you what political types know. Cameron's rage was entirely proportionate; rage, in this unspeakable case, was perhaps the only civilised response. Sometimes, gut instinct is more important than a calculated attack. Sometimes, political positioning is secondary to the need to say simply what is wrong.

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Scrutiny: It's Time for Timid Tories to Tell Us Where Cuts Can Be Made

It was over cases such as the Baby P tragedy, of course, that Cameron once hoped to fight the next general election. The party felt that the question of Britain's "broken society" would be the dominant theme. In less turbu...

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