"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
Bruce wrote:
... just like David Cameron who pretends he had nothing to do with the
last Tory government, in spite of his role as Special Adviser to the
then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont. Pictures from Black
Wednesday (16.9.92) when the pound was forced out of the Exchange Rate
Mechanism show Lamont and Cameron strutting together.

So on the basis of your argument, David Cameron must also be setting
himself (and the country) up for a great big fall. ;-)

Cameron was in the positio of giving political advice. From the way Labour
made such a fuss about it, you'd think Cameron had personally been running
the UK's economic policy, taking all the decisions himself. This has been
roundly denied by both Norman Lamont and John Major.


The job of a Special Adviser is to give POLICY advice to a Secretary
of State and/or Minister(s).

I don't think Labour has ever accused Cameron of running the UK's
economic policy at that time. But Cameron cannot deny knowledge of
what was going on, and if he wasn't giving policy advice, he wasn't
doing the job he was being paid for.