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Cameron Proves No Thatcher On Budget Deficits In Campaign to Defeat Brown
David Cameron, the man considered by most Britons to be their next prime minister, bounds onto a conference center stage in Leyland, in northwestern England, on a sunny May afternoon. As the applause subsides, the leader of the U.K. Conservative Party tells the 300 voters gathered before him that he's ready to answer any question. One woman asks about his plans for his first day on the job at 10 Downing Street.
"I think the first thing I'd do is find out where the loo is," Cameron says, as the crowd laughs. Cleaning up politics and sorting out the economy will be big priorities, he adds.
The studied casualness and issue-dodging humor reveal the confidence of a party leader who knows he holds the strongest political hand in the country. Cameron, 42, is on track to become Britain's leader by June 2010, the latest month that Prime Minister Gordon Brown can hold an election. Since February 2008, polls have uniformly shown Cameron's Conservatives ahead of Brown's Labour Party, with some surveys giving the party a lead of more than 20 percentage points. Under the U.K. parliamentary system of majority rule, a victory of that scale would end 13 years of Labour government and give Cameron the legislative power to reshape Britain.
Bloomberg
"I think the first thing I'd do is find out where the loo is," Cameron says, as the crowd laughs. Cleaning up politics and sorting out the economy will be big priorities, he adds.
The studied casualness and issue-dodging humor reveal the confidence of a party leader who knows he holds the strongest political hand in the country. Cameron, 42, is on track to become Britain's leader by June 2010, the latest month that Prime Minister Gordon Brown can hold an election. Since February 2008, polls have uniformly shown Cameron's Conservatives ahead of Brown's Labour Party, with some surveys giving the party a lead of more than 20 percentage points. Under the U.K. parliamentary system of majority rule, a victory of that scale would end 13 years of Labour government and give Cameron the legislative power to reshape Britain.
Bloomberg
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