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Cameron is making the intellectual running now — with a little help from the Blairites

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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics

What do you give a Prime Minister who wants nothing? The Indian government has been asking itself this for some time, ahead of Gordon Brown’s official visit later this month. The famously frugal Prime Minister would have little interest in any trinket. Presenting him with some casual clothing could be misinterpreted as an impolite sartorial hint. So after much deliberation, Delhi University has been ordered to award Mr Brown an honorary doctorate. The chosen subject: ‘academia and public services’.

It is not yet clear whether Mr Brown will accept. The degree might invite unhelpful questions about what, precisely, he has contributed to the theory of public services. True, he stood athwart Tony Blair’s pro-market reforms and has lost little time dismantling them in office. But if he has an alternative intellectual agenda, it is one that can barely be discerned in Westminster let alone in New Delhi.

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