David Cameron’s speech today on Britain’s “social recession” bore an unmistakable resemblance to Tony Blair’s speech on the murder of James Bulger. As shadow home secretary in 1993, Blair described the murder as “a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation”. Today, Cameron warned that the shocking Edlington case was not an “isolated incident of evil”.
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