13 August 2011

UK riots: zero tolerance promises Cameron - but will this be his finest hour?

After the biggest crisis of his premiership David Cameron talks about how to fix a broken society, and the contagion of despair in Britain's bleakest neighbourhoods.

What kept you? That's the first thing I want to ask David Cameron, as I sit down opposite him on the mid-morning train from Euston to Manchester. On Monday night, I say, I took refuge with my children in a friend's house in Hackney, a few hundred yards further away from the boiling disorder, far enough to feel safe; and, as I watched the scenes of conflagration and looting unfold on-screen, I did ask out loud: where is our Prime Minister?

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