Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

David Cameron says Christian values make Britain successful. Why?

David Cameron’s Christmas message is being reported as one of his most Christian public statements yet, with the Prime Minister arguing – as he did at Prime Minister’s Questions recently – that ‘it is because of these important religious roots and Christian values that Britain has been such a successful home to people of all faiths and none’.

Cameron has – with the occasional rather odd hiccup – become much more confident about talking about Christianity, both in terms of his own beliefs and the importance he thinks faith should have in wider society, since he described his personal faith as being ‘a bit like the reception for Magic FM in the Chilterns – it sort of comes and goes’. His interest has been increasing over the past few years, but some of his colleagues were struck by the effect a visit to a large Pentecostal Christian gathering in London just before the election had on the Prime Minister.

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