The pressure is on David Cameron. A week or so ago the Conservative leader was confident of winning Britain’s general election. Whatever their misgivings about the Tories, the voters showed no enthusiasm for five more years of Gordon Brown’s government. A colleague was overheard saying that Mr Cameron was already thinking about the choreography of his first 100 days in 10 Downing Street.
That was then. A dull, seemingly predictable election has become, well, less predictable. A surge in support for Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats has challenged the fundamental assumption of Mr Cameron’s election strategy: that the Tory offer of change would trump Gordon Brown’s prescription of more of the same. “Change” still looks a winning card. But Mr Clegg may wrest it from Mr Cameron’s grasp.
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