Our coalition government was forged one year ago tomorrow — and we shall have more
on that then. But the Sun has already marked the occasion by publishing an interview
with David Cameron today. It is a wide-ranging sort of conversation, touching on everything from the Prime Minister’s workload (“every day feels like a week”) to the shelf life of the
government (“five years”), although much of it is unsurprising. It does, however, contain one or two useful insights into how the coalition’s game of give-and-take is going to operate
from now on.
First up, Cameron’s insistence — contra Clegg — that the Lib Dems should not be portrayed as a “moderating influence” on his party. “I don’t see it like that,” he says, “We are an influence on each other, because of our different histories and traditions and policies.”
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