FG needs ideas as well as image

DAVID CAMERON, the Conservative leader, was interviewed by John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4’s Today a few days ago.

Like a calf painfully learning for the first time what an electric fence is there for, the baby-faced Cameron got a fair old probing from the curmudgeonly Humphrys, BBC’s equivalent to Cathal Mac Coille.

The interview was almost banal. It barely touched on the big issues, hardly at all. There was a method behind that to which we will return.