David Cameron on Gordon Brown in 2008:
“He has the Olympic torch in Downing Street but won’t touch it…If dithering was an Olympic sport, he would have a gold medal.”
David Cameron in 2012:
“Politicians aren’t allowed to touch it, quite rightly, the torch is about the people and the athletes.”
Hypocrite.
Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
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