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Ladies and gentlemen, David Cameron. Thank you.

14 years ago in the empty shell of a derelict Battersea power station in London, a young David Cameron

walks onto a stage with his baby face and rosy red cheeks. He stands in front of a huge sign that

says we're all in this together and Clutches the 2010 election

manifesto that he's there to launch. It's a little hardback book in deepest Tory

blue embossed with the words an invitation to join the government of Britain.

He sets out how he sees the country before him, and it begins to make sense why he's

chosen the backdrop of this decaying monolith of a building.

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