Dodge and shimmy. Duck and weave. Cameron was at it again today.
Ed Miliband asked if he’d care to join him for a spot of cut and thrust on TV. One to one. He had a date, 30 April, pencilled in for the gig. Kettle crisps and a glass of merlot on the PM’s rider.
Tricky. Cameron would rather knight Rolf Harris, ennoble Gary Glitter and grant Myra Hindley a posthumous pardon than grapple with his main foe on live TV. So his course was clear. Dodge without appearing to dodge.
Miliband pressed the question and forced his quarry onto the defensive but Cam’s camera-phobia won’t achieve cut-through with the public.
Much harder to duck on immigration. The famous Tory vow about ‘tens of thousands’ has been smashed more comprehensively than any promise in recent political history.
Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands, actually.
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