Tag: British politics

  • Spoiling for the fight: David Cameron

    The Economist: Spoiling for the fight: David Cameron …It has become a platitude of political commentary in Britain to envy the drama that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton brought to American politics. But neither America nor most other democracies offers a spectacle to match the gladiatorial rawness of PMQs, which has itself rarely been so…

  • Now that he’s gone

    The Economist: Now that he's gone Gordon Brown becomes prime minister just as David Cameron, the first electable Conservative candidate in a decade, is on the back foot. That luck won't last. NOTHING in Tony Blair's decade as prime minister so became him as the leaving of it. His last session at the despatch box…