Questions To The Prime Minister

Cameron was just awful. He combined both the worst feature of Gordon Brown at PMQs (answering specifics with generalities) with the worst feature, and that is saying quite something, of the inarticulate, ill-read Blair creature (asking questions of the Opposition).

I don't know why anyone thinks that Middle Britain and the unions are two different categories, or that forty and fifty per cent taxpayers are in the middle of anything. But even they will relate far better to Miliband, or indeed to the unions, than to a man who now speaks like a character from Downton Abbey, and who has obviously never been questioned by anyone in his life.

Any accent becomes exaggerated, even to the point of incomprehensibility, if the speaker never meets anyone who does not speak with it. I give you David Cameron. Before long Middle Britain, whether accurately or conventionally defined, honestly will not be able to understand a word that he is saying.