Challenging Times Ahead for Britain
An apple-cheeked David Cameron exudes self-belief. Nick Clegg carries the injured indignation of the politician forever obliged to justify himself. Ed Miliband wears the startled gaze of a leader frozen in the headlights of his own authority. Rarely has the condition of politics been inscribed so accurately on the countenances of its principal players.
The prime minister has never lacked for confidence. Friends intend no slight when they call him a born-to-rule Tory. The observation most often offered by visitors to Downing Street is of a politician supremely comfortable in his own skin.
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