Nick Clegg has just finished the first of what we are promised will be a series of regular monthly press conferences. But while the Deputy PM seems ever keener to expose himself to scrutiny (he already hosts the weekly “Call Clegg” on LBC), in his own version of Tony Blair’s “masochism strategy”, David Cameron is proving more evasive.
After entering Downing Street, Cameron continued to hold a monthly press conference, as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did, but they became increasingly rare and it’s now nearly two years since one was last held (on 8 July 2011); the hastily-arranged conference on Leveson in March doesn’t really count. Journalists were given precisely half an hour’s notice.
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