David Cameron interview: ‘We protected the poorest, the NHS and pensioners’

Is David Cameron still the “compassionate Conservative” who won the party leadership in 2005 and was derailed by economic crisis, or is he a Thatcherite who reverted to type when he got the chance? It is a question that some Tory modernisers ask themselves as Mr Cameron runs what is widely seen as a safety-first campaign based on the economy and bashing Ed Miliband.