Peter Hoskin

Clarke and Cameron, in conversation

A neat little anecdote in Steve Richards’ column this morning:

“When David Cameron bumped into Charles Clarke at the end of the summer, the former Cabinet minister told the Tory leader in relation to the attempted coup: ‘Don’t worry… we’ll be back’. Cameron replied to him only half jokingly: ‘That’s exactly what I am worried about’.”

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