There are few, if any, ironclad laws in politics, but here is a principle that comes close: Any senior British politician who speaks out about religion will quickly wish he hadn’t. Alastair Campbell, former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s closest adviser, famously told reporters when they asked his boss religious questions, “We don’t do God.”
Prime Minister David Cameron may be regretting his recent failure to observe this rule. The trouble began at an Easter reception in Downing Street at which the prime minister claimed that his pet project for social reform had divine origins.
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