February 2010: David Cameron pledges to clean up British politics, during an impassioned speech in which he asserts that the public’s disaffection with politicians is genuine, justified and deep-seated. “Money buying influence,” he fulminates. “We can’t go on like this.”May 2010: David Cameron nominates the self-made millionaire businessman Dolar Popat and Next’s Simon Wolfson for peerages.
By coincidence, both men have donated large sums to the Conservative party.
Sometimes things change; sometimes they don’t.
