David Cameron’s surprise announcement that he will not serve a third term was “surely an unforced error from an overly chillaxed old Etonian forgetting who he was chatting to, rather than a Machiavellian masterstroke from a politician at the height of his powers,” according to Professor Tim Bale.
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