Leicester Mercury Political correspondent
Posts tagged David Cameron
Leaders TV debate stand-ins
Apr 13th
Interesting factoid from the Guardian:
All three leaders have set aside time tomorrow to prepare for Thursday’s broadcast on ITV, appointing colleagues to act as their opponents in sparring practice.
Brown has Alastair Campbell playing David Cameron and the former Downing Street adviser Theo Bertram as Nick Clegg. The Liberal Democrats are using David Laws as
Cameron and Chris Huhne as Brown. Cameron has asked his shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to spar as Clegg, Damian Green as Brown, and Michael Gove acting as the moderator.
“It’s a Sicilian message…”
Apr 12th
“Nationally [voters are] voting for a team, with people like George Osborne, William Hague, Ken Clarke and Caroline Spelman. People rightly think ‘who do I want running the team?’” – David Cameron
So the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and government gets a mention, but Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling doesn’t.
Is this Cameron’s Sicilian message that gaffe-prone Chris will be sleeping with the political fishes if Cameron wins the election?
