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All very well, but

It goes on:

Mr Cameron’s case is not yet persuasive. His speeches are replete with favourable references to charities but precious little about the practical business issue of job creation. He has been fond lately of set-piece speeches of dubious intellectual and strategic wisdom on the iniquity of the big state and health and safety legislation . . . Mr Cameron is, instead, projecting the aura of a man who wants power rather more than he knows what to do with it.

Cameron’s intense anti-statism (in his conference speech he made the absurd claim that “big government” was to blame for the financial crisis) has damaged his party’s credibility. There is something in the Labour line that “those who do not believe in the power of government should not be trusted to form one”.

The Times concludes:

It is all very well to complain about the Labour record but we still await a clear, unambiguous and compelling case for a Conservative government.

It’s a timely reminder that unlike its Wapping cousin the Sun, the Times remains committed, at least in principle, to Labour.

- The Times attacks Cameron, NewStatesman.com, December 8, 2009.

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