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Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery

and this week I'm joined by our diarist Patrick Kidd, parliamentary sketch writer

Anne Trennan and columnist Matt Ridley.

For a former PR man, David Cameron is stupidly unaware of the virtue of silence.

By saying in an interview that he will stay on as Prime Minister for the entirety of the next five years,

but not seek a third term, he looks arrogant, presumptuous, and entitled.

By anointing Osborne, May and Johnson as his heirs to succeed in 2020, he creates an army of the

resentful who are doubtless already plotting against him.

If you hold the balance, Alex Salmon said, you hold the power.

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