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...TIME: The polls currently show you firmly ahead of Labour, but not by a large enough margin to avoid a hung parliament, which means that every vote will count. The British press, particularly its tabloid newspapers and especially the Sun, are credited with influencing the outcome of previous elections. How important is it to you to win their endorsements...
...TIME: You're putting some faith in the power of new media, with your Webcameron web site. You've described Gordon Brown [who is expected to lead the Labour Party in the next election] as an "analog politician in a digital...
...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 of the big issues of environmental and social problems more, and a greater trust in local...
...TIME: That sounds very much in tune with the [more left-leaning] Guardian readership. You're occupying much of the ground that has been occupied by Labour...
...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's the Labour Party, deeply divided, it can't deliver public service reform. So it was an interesting moment in British politics...