David Cameron has been accused of making a wide number of foreign policy gaffes, though these fall into different categories. I think there is often a plausible defence of (somewhat inconvenient) truth-telling, even if Cameron’s recent comments about Pakistan appeared off-the-cuff rather than a deliberate strategy of increased public pressure. Beyond that, Cameron seems (laudably)
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LiberalConspiracy on 5th Aug 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
After his visit to Afghanistan (where CentreRight contributor and TA soldier Lee Rotherham is serving) David Cameron arrives in Pakistan today for talks with political leaders. It is very timely that the Conservative leader is making this visit. He visits...
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ConservativeHome on 3rd Sep 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Tory leader David Cameron has launched a thinly-veiled attack on US neo-conservative foreign policy in a speech in Pakistan.
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PoliticsCoUk on 3rd Sep 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Speaking in Islamabad, David Cameron will today outline five steps for dealing with modern foreign policy threats. In his speech, he also discusses Pakistan and Russia at length. A liberal conservative foreign policy: “My starting point is the philosophy that...
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ConservativeHome on 3rd Sep 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
David Cameron says it is important to "speak frankly" after criticism of his comments about Pakistan's record on tackling terrorism.
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BBCPolitics on 29th Jul 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
David Cameron has said he does not regret comments he made about Pakistan during his visit to India.
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BBCPolitics on 3rd Aug 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Shadow foreign secretary David Miliband has said that David Cameron "enraged people" with comments he made in India about Pakistan's alleged links to terror.
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BBCPolitics on 31st Jul 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
So the head of Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, has cancelled the intelligence component of this week's visit by Pakistan's president because David Cameron suggested that the country should not 'look both ways'.
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Telegraph on 1st Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
David Cameron came under pressure to clarify tax policy after signalling that a Tory government would seek to reverse 'at least a part' of a national insurance increase
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FT on 11th Jan 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
David Cameron has called on America and the rest of the world to reject "neo-conservative" policies in the post-Bush era so that democratic nations can act with "moral authority". Setting out his approach to foreign policy in a speech in Pakistan, he described himself as "a liberal Conservative".
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TheIndependent on 4th Sep 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
David Cameron’s recent visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan received relatively little press attention; showing just how exceptional the amount of coverage that Cameron’s statements on Georgia and trip there garnered were. In his address in Pakistan, Cameron once more set out his ‘liberal conservative’ agenda. Here’s the key passage of the speech: “A liberal Conser...
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Spectator on 8th Sep 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
