An interview with David Cameron

The Spectator has a lengthy interview with David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party.

This article is worth reading in full.

If anyone from the National Party reads this blog, I would suggest they read the Spectator article and think about how National might position themselves similarly.

I am not going to quote from the article at length, but the extract below discussing when to issue policy is relevant:-

Europe is just one area where policy decisions have been deferred. On tax brackets, defence spending, Scottish finance and more, there are plenty of questions kicked into the long grass. This, I say as we board the train, makes it harder to persuade a blue-collar Crewe voter just how his life would be better under the Tories. ‘This is the perennial problem in opposition. The right time to set out your tax and spending proposals is at an election — and I don’t believe in producing fully worked-up shadow budgets every single year,’ he says.

‘I am not saying, Clint Eastwood-like, that there are only two sorts of policy in this world — good ones that get stolen by your opponents and bad ones that get hung round your neck for ever. But it is a thought to keep in your head. Many people have said we’d never make any breakthroughs in politics until we had more policies. To which I would reply: this train has just gone through Conservative-controlled Nuneaton.’

This was an interesting and informative piece, providing matters to think about.