David Cameron's big embrace

摘要

At the general election on May 7th David Cameron led his party to its first majority in the House of Commons for 23 years. The next day he did something almost as important and surprising: he drew the right lessons from his win. The prime minister had run a solid, unspectacular campaign focused on stability and competence. Worried by the opposition Labour Party's economic instincts and its possible reliance on Scottish nationalists to govern, voters dutifully turned out for the Conservative Party. True to the modest mandate they had given him, Mr Cameron talked about giving Britons "a good life", promised apprenticeships and house-building and hailed his party's unifying, "one nation" tradition.