A month after his deputy Nick Clegg's miserable performance on Radio Nottingham when excusing his dalliance with arson as a teenager, Dave was in similarly poor form on Radio 4 this morning avoiding questions about his own youthful indiscretions (allegedly) involving bread rolls and broken windows in restaurants (criminal damage to the rest of us).
You may have already heard the faltering performance by Nick Clegg, who once claimed that, as a callow youth, he had set fire to two greenhouses.
The radio presenter raised this with the Lib Dem leader in a discussion about the riots. Clegg awkwardly dismissed the question by claiming that the presenter was attempting to create "a link between unrelated events". You can listen at 4min 45sec.
This morning it was his boss's turn when Today's Evan Davis asked Cameron about his Bullingdon days at Oxford University (at about 15min 20sec).
"We all do stupid things when we are young and we should learn from them," he said. Contrary to what most of us know about the Bullingdon Boys, he seemed unaware of any restaurants being damaged.
Sadly, Cameron wasn't pressed on this as much as I had hoped.
I was so curious about the severity of sentence Cameron would have deemed appropriate for the opportunistic criminality of these well-heeled, smart young people who would later run our country.
