The Government cannot walk by on the other side when people are suffering, Gordon Brown told the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday in an extraordinary tussle for the moral high ground.
The Prime Minister delved into the New Testament to deliver a surprising riposte to Dr Rowan Williams, who had likened the Government’s plans to boost spending to an “addict returning to the drug”.
The head of the Church of England had told the Today programme on Radio 4: “It is about what is sustainable in the long term and if this is going to drive us back into the same spin, I do not think that is going to help us.”
Bravo ABC. You are continually surprising me lately! So hard to peg down in one camp.