When it comes to defending the free market, and making the case for fiscal sanity,
there’s scarcely anyone better than David Cameron. He was on superb form in Davos yesterday, giving much-needed blunt advice to the continentals. ‘Eurozone countries must do everything
possible to get to grips with their own debts,’ he said.
And he’s right. The snag, as I say in my Daily Telegraph
column today, is that Cameron’s definition of getting to grips with debt involves increasing it more than Labour planned to, more than France, Germany, Italy or Portugal. On the first sign of
trouble, his government gave up on its deficit reduction timetable – it will now halve the deficit over five years, whereas Darling promised to do it in four.
As The Sun says today, Cameron would have more credibility at Davos if the British economy was growing. Instead it has stalled, and Osborne seems to have run out of ideas to get it moving.

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