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...David Cameron: Yes. He's a politician whose approach I just find very stuck in the past. It's all about top-down big government solutions, and if you look at the tax credit system, the NHS computer, the national ID card scheme, this belief in big government solutions solving the problems of the world. I just take a totally different view. Compared with Labour's state control, what we need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some...
...David Cameron: I think it cuts across. It's not a leftwing thing or a rightwing thing. I think it's quite a Conservative idea because it's about trusting people and saying that if you trust people with more decisions over their lives and greater responsibility, they will be stronger and society will be stronger. That's quite a Conservative idea. But this also does resonate with people on other parts of the political spectrum who don't believe in big government and who want a richer civic society. If you look at the role of voluntary bodies...
...David Cameron: It has been unfamiliar for the last few decades because there was a great division between the parties. When I grew up in the 1980s, there was this great division between the center right and the left. We wanted to be part of NATO and to deploy cruise missiles. They wanted to leave NATO and unilaterally disarm. We wanted to privatize state-run industries. They wanted to nationalize the top 100 companies. We wanted to reform the trade unions. They wanted to give more power to the trade unions. There were huge, ideological divisions. That has changed. With...
...David Cameron: It was one of the first big things that happened last year that established a slightly new approach for the Conservative Party that initially some people were uneasy about - but then they saw the sense. This is positive politics, you're getting something done, you're sticking to your principles. It ended up actually being intensely embarrassing for the government because they were relying on us to pass their legislation. So, in the end the message came out: if you want a united party that knows about public service reform, that's the Conservative Party. Alternatively there...
...David Cameron: I don't really know him very well, and I don't know what his approach will be like. He seems more ?there's less light and shade than with Blair. So I think probably there will be a bit of a contrast...