The Prime Minister does God. At least, that’s the gist of his first major speech on religion. Actually, the interesting thing is that a Tory Prime Minister feels that he has to make the point that he is
a Christian. Other than Michael Howard, who was Jewish, most other Tory leaders could have assumed we’d take it as read that he or she was more or less CofE, including Mrs Thatcher, who was,
of course, a Methodist.
Following Richard Dawkins’ remark that the Prime Minister may ‘not really’ be a Christian, Mr Cameron responded: ‘I am a committed – but I have to say vaguely practising – Church of England Christian, who will stand up for the values and principles of my faith’. But he added he was ‘full of doubts’ and ‘constantly grappling’ with the big theological issues.
Now no Christian would take issue with that last remark.
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