The right mission

Tony Blair — remember him? — was better at diagnosis than cure. ‘I think most
people would say that in virtually every aspect of their life things are better than they were 30 or 40 years ago,’ he told the Sunday Telegraph in November 2005.

Tony Blair — remember him? — was better at diagnosis than cure. ‘I think most people would say that in virtually every aspect of their life things are better than they were 30 or 40 years ago,’ he told the Sunday Telegraph in November 2005. ‘This whole question of respect and law and order, though, is the one area where you’d say we’re probably more fearful, and that is because we can’t deal with these types of new crime in the old ways.’

This week David Cameron showed that while he grasps this grim trend no less than the former prime minister, he is capable of being much more than ‘the heir to Blair’.