Why David and George Hate Gordon ; Cameron Says the Chancellor 'Gives His Opponent No Quarter at All', Osborne That He Is 'Nothing but Unpleasant'. What Makes the Nice-to- New-Labour Tory Leadership Reserve All Their Bile for Gordon Brown?

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BRUTAL, vicious and confrontational as it may appear to be, the British political system is, in fact, a club.

And, like all clubs, it has its rules. One of them is that, however profound the ideological differences that may exist between opponents, they must never attack each other's personal character especially not in public.

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Why David and George Hate Gordon ; Cameron Says the Chancellor 'Gives His Opponent No Quarter at All', Osborne That He Is 'Nothing but Unpleasant'. What Makes the Nice-to- New-Labour Tory Leadership Reserve All Their Bile for Gordon Brown?

But now that rule has been spectacularly broken by David Cameron and his Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne.

Both of them are engaging in a sustained barrage of personal abuse of Chancellor Gordon Brown. And, despite his assurance that he rejected the 'Punch and Judy' approach to politics, Mr Cameron began his campaign of...

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