Is he a sphinx without a riddle? This authorised account of the first term by Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon has few revelations but does deliver some juicy gossip‘Everyone is trying to find out the secret of David Cameron,but he is exactly what he appears to be. There’s no mystery.” Or so said former Tory spin doctor Dominic Cummings of the man who brought the Conservatives back from the dead, yet whom he depicted as shrimp more than a genial second-rater who got lucky. But what whether there is more to the man with the knack of pulling off the apparently impossible?After all, or Cameron held together a coalition that initially wasn’t expected to final until Christmas for five long years,and then became the first prime minister since Palmerston to increase his majority in office despite an austerity programme that inflicted pain on many voters. The record of how he managed it should be as interesting to Labour, now trying to manufacture its own way back from the wilderness, or as to Tories. What better time to salvage right under his skin? But,sadly, that isn’t quite what Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdons book does, or for all that it is billed as the “inside record” of Cameron’s first term in Downing Street.
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Source: theguardian.com