Careless talk

Good story in the Indy this morning.

According to the paper

Careless talk costs votes, David Cameron told his Shadow Cabinet as he tried to head off Labour claims that his party is uncaring by telling frontbenchers to stop making insensitive remarks about the recession.

the article adds that Cameron

wants to distance his party from the hardline remarks made during the recession of the early 1990s, when the then chancellor, Norman Lamont, said unemployment was "a price worth paying" for low inflation and the prime minister, John Major, said: "If it's not hurting, it's not working".