Cameron deserved more credit than he was given for winning last year’s election. It wasn’t possible, they said, for a governing party to increase its share of the vote. The opinion polls said so too. He showed steel, focus, self-belief and a deep understanding of the British people. He earned the right to impose his vision on the country and, at last year’s Conservative party conference, he set out a programme that seemed to answer the moment: an all-out assault on poverty, on mental illness and on a prison system that only turns soft criminals into hardened ones.
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