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This is not a moral crusade

A fortnight ago we urged David Cameron to raise his game after Gordon Brown’s impressively bold start as Prime Minister.

issue 14 July 2007

A fortnight ago we urged David Cameron to raise his game after Gordon Brown’s impressively bold start as Prime Minister.

A fortnight ago we urged David Cameron to raise his game after Gordon Brown’s impressively bold start as Prime Minister. In his response to the report by Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice policy group, the Tory leader has done just that. Mr Cameron has sounded focused, impatient to improve the state of the nation, and visibly determined to take on the new PM and defeat him.

Although the proposed £20 per week boost to married couples has inevitably dominated the headlines, it is only one of many sensible recommendations to emerge from Mr Duncan Smith’s 671-page report. In its analysis of family collapse, substance addiction, education underachievement, debt and crime, this document is the most comprehensive analysis of social breakdown published for many years.

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