So Cameron said come out and said sorry. Again. The first stage of his S-Word was that apology on the Andrew Marr Show which was interrupted when the signal from North Kensington collapsed. Today he said…. So why the mea culpa? Sure, this isolates Gordon Brown in that almost everyone (including his ministers) are saying sorry. But Cameron is on a more serious mission: to gain credibility with the public. And the first stage of that is to admit that he (like everyone else) got things wrong. The apology is for carefully-chosen errors: very few spotted bank and corporate debt. Promising to match Labour’s unaffordable spending plans was the real error. But it’s the positioning that matters: Cameron has shouted out the hardest word. The loudest sound now is the silence from 10 Downing Street. |
Fraser Nelson
Cameron’s apology isolates No.10
So Cameron said come out and said sorry. Again. The first stage of his S-Word was that apology on the Andrew Marr Show which was interrupted when the signal from North Kensington collapsed. Today he said….
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