Winegums wrote:To be fair I think it's a bit tedious asking him to comment. No politician is going to publicly support domestic abuse even if they believed it was fine and reasonable. It's like when the London riots happened and every politician tediously begun their spiel with "I'd like to say I don't condone the riots...". Boring and redundant.
Absolutely. But on the other hand he (or his advisors, who are legion) should have anticipated the question and prepared an answer.
Either he doesn't do the very basic things (too lazy?) or he can't recall the prepared answers (too thick?).
Blair and Thatcher were the masters of that skill.