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Cameron’s “coasting” ministers

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Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith have been criticised in today's report from Reform

It’s been a tough week for David Cameron. He has been on the end of a tabloid bashing over his government’s failure to deport the convicted hate preacher Abu Qatada and has been forced to deny that he wants his beleaguered Health Secretary to be “taken out and shot.” If that were not enough, he then took a pummelling from Ed Miliband in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

Hardly surprising that he fled to Sweden yesterday to get away from it all.

The release of findings on the government’s commitment to reform from a centre-right think tank today would surely herald some positive press then? Not quite.

Labour’s leader used the Tory Reform Group to attack the Coalition during PMQs; now it is the turn of the similarly-named yet independent body Reform to twist

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  1. February 10, 2012

    John Middleton

    I had a dream last night that Ed Miliband and David Cameron were re-staging the 1974 Ali-Foreman Rumble in the Jungle. The alarm went off as we were just coming up to Round 8…..

     
  2. February 10, 2012

    Ivana Humpalot

    I think this had to be Milliband’s best performance. It says a lot about Cameron that he made Milliband look like a worthy politician.

     

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