‘Dodgy Dave’ Cameron the ‘unpleasant & unacceptable face of capitalism’?
In May 1973 following a Court case the then Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath referred in the Commons to the activities of London based southern African mining firm Lonhro as the ‘unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism’.
The phrase has entered the historical record as an example of a Conservative Prime Minister drawing a moral limit to how far free market capitalism might go.
The question for Boris Johnson now, well known promoter of the benefits of capitalism, is whether he echoes the words of Ted Heath and accepts that David Cameron is another example of the ‘unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism’.
Or perhaps the conclusion is that all Tory Prime Ministers are dodgy in one way or another…
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