David Cameron has had a good week. He has supported — some would say initiated — robust action against the rioters, and struck a note of calm and measured defiance.
Yesterday, he offered a more detailed analysis of what he called ‘a moral collapse’ in our society, and promised to tackle the social problems which he believes lie behind it.
Although Ed Miliband scornfully dismissed the Prime Minister’s ‘knee-jerk gimmicks’, it was a speech more of ideas than of specific proposals, gimmicky or otherwise.
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