This was the perhaps the lowest-octane speech David Cameron has ever given to the Tory
conference. He didn’t need to give the speech of his life, for once – so he didn’t. He dutifully ran through all the various points of government policies, but there were too many of what Art
Laffer calls MEGO figures (my eyes glaze over).
It’s odd, because Cameron can speak so well when he needs to. Compared to the speeches we heard yesterday – from Gove and IDS – it was oddly uninspiring. He spoke about his government’s “beating, radical heart” with no real enthusiasm – as if he received the speech only recently, and didn’t rehearse too much. It was too long, was repetitious in places.
The best part was what he called the shift in power from state to society, and asked his audience (in a roundabout way) what they can do for their country.
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