Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Cameron is taking the fight to Brown

Here is my top half dozen points from Cameron’s angry, feisty, Brown’s-a-liar press conference today.
 
1.     GO AHEAD, BROWN, MAKE MY DAYWe can do this the easy way or the hard way. I can just go on and on, question time after question time, revealing the cuts that he himself is planning. Or he can recognise this is the wrong approach not only for his party but the country.” Cameron devoted the last two PMQs to cuts. Is he threatening here to keep doing it every week? I think he should, and agree with Matthew Parris that he should be ruthlessly boring about this topic. Not only because a Prime Minister in a democracy should not be allowed to lie as Brown is lying, but because this strategy deploys a little political jujitsu. It turns Brown’s weight against him, takes the debate from Tory cuts to Tory honesty v Labour lies.

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