Dave talks film, finances and Europe

It was the second of the Today Programme’s New Year’s interviews with the three party leaders today; this one with David Cameron. And there was plenty to digest from it. So much, in fact, that we thought we’d bash out a transcript, so that CoffeeHousers can read it through for themselves. That’s below, but before we get there it’s worth highlighting a couple of things that Cameron says. First, his point that ‘we’ve seen a level of reward at the top that just hasn’t been commensurate with success’, which is another volley in the battle against the ‘undeserving rich’ that James mentioned yesterday. And then his extended admission, in reference to effectively exercising the British veto in Europe last month, that ‘I’m not making some great claim to have achieved a safeguard’ for the country. Intentionally or not, both are messages that will placate Lib Dem supporters — the first because it’s a Lib Dem cause too; the second because it’s more ambiguous than Cameron’s thrusting rhetoric on Europe last month — and could bolster the coalition after its fragile