I'm not 100% convinced by Tim's tortoise-and-the-hare analogy, but if today's PMQ performance from David Cameron represents a genuine change of approach, then it's one up to the tortoises.
It was a dramatic shift in style: a re-rejection, if you will, of Punch-and-Judy politics that was particularly appropriate to his carefully constructed sequence of questions.
Tory leaders have so often wasted the huge opportunity that they alone possess: the ability to subject the Prime Minister to a forensic line of enquiry. No one else gets the chance to put the PM on the stand, doing to him what a prosecuting barrister would do to a dodgy witness.
What we normally get, however, is more akin to a boxing match than a courtroom confrontation – the combatants slugging it out punch-by-punch. Occasionally, this is justified, and David Cameron has administered some well-deserved monsterings in his time.
But making Gordon Brown look bad is not the same as making David Cameron look good – and the latter never looks better than when he's cool, calm and speaking up for the concerns of the general public. It is an approach that helped him make such an impact when he first became leader, and I think it worked very well today.
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