A quick post just to add the Guardian’s interview with David Cameron to your Saturday reading list. It takes the unusual approach of
fielding questions to the PM from a range of ‘public figures’ — and, although many of those questions reduce down to ‘why aren’t you giving more money to X?’, the
results are still generally engaging and occasionally insightful.
And so we learn, after an enquiry by The Spectator’s own Toby Young, that Cameron doesn’t keep a diary. And we also have the PM justifiying his stance on Europe to Nigel Farage; skipping over a question about what he may or may not have inhaled during his time at Eton; claiming that ‘not everything [Gordon Brown] did was wrong’; and more besides.
One question and answer stand out, at least so far as the current functioning of the coalition is concerned:
Norman Lamont: ‘If there were no coalition and you were governing as a Conservative prime minister alone, what three things would you most like to have done that you have not been able to do in coalition?’ David Cameron: ‘Further action on welfare reform.
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