Ginny Dougary :: Award-winning journalist and writer » david cameron http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk Politics, celebrities, interviews, opinions, travel, and more... Tue, 18 May 2010 16:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Gordon Brown interview: the election, Blair and family life http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2010/04/10/gordon-brown-interview-the-election-blair-and-family-life/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2010/04/10/gordon-brown-interview-the-election-blair-and-family-life/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:27:54 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=328 Gordon Brown talks candidly to Ginny Dougary Photo: Mitch Jenkins Gordon Brown By our third meeting, the Prime Minister’s skill at the public kiss had improved immeasurably. There was now definite contact between lips and cheek and no head clunking, although he still needs to work on his puckering technique. When I commented on his progress, in the library of 10 Downing Street, he laughed... which is something he does a lot, the more we meet, in-between some rather solemn moments. My teasing had come on the back of seeing his turn on Piers Morgan’s television show, and the clips of him bungling the continental double-kiss with the likes of Carla Bruni (but, really, who can blame him for being a little fazed by that?). In the run-up to the election, the beauty contest between David Cameron and Gordon Brown is hotting up. After Brown’s hour with Morgan came his opponent’s twirl with Trevor McDonald, featuring the Tory’s “secret weapon” – after Sarah Brown’s endorsement of her husband, at last year’s Labour Party conference, proved such a hit – David’s wife, Samantha. But McDonald’s gentle lack of probing did his subject no favours, and Cameron’s performance – not helped by some rather ludicrous footage of him jogging to a soundtrack of Nina Simone’s Feeling Good – merely reinforced his critics’ complaints that he is a lightweight. Brown has the opposite problem; where Cameron is accused of “hidden shallows”, the PM is thought to be almost too deep. There were cavils about him looking upset (apparently there is also such a thing as being “too human”) when discussing the death of his baby daughter, Jennifer, with Morgan but, on the whole, the attempt to portray him as less remote and more normal worked. So thus far, in the battle of the populist TV shows, it’s probably 15-love to Brown. Related posts:
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]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2009/05/25/who-is-david-cameron/feed/ 0 Tebbit hits out at Tories and names Brown as Thatcher’s natural heir http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2007/10/17/tebbit-hits-out-at-tories-and-names-brown-as-thatchers-natural-heir/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2007/10/17/tebbit-hits-out-at-tories-and-names-brown-as-thatchers-natural-heir/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:34:09 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2007/10/17/tebbit-hits-out-at-tories-and-names-brown-as-thatchers-natural-heir/ The devastating intervention from Lord Tebbit came in an interview with Ginny Dougary in The Times Magazine, to be published on Saturday. He drew a wounding comparison between Mr Brown, on whom he lavished praise, and Mr Cameron, whom he criticised for his lack of experience and his stand on grammar schools. “I think we lack somebody of the standing of Margaret,” he said when asked to name the Conservatives’ biggest asset. Related posts:
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