Following the hoo-ha over Stephanie Flanders interview

of David Cameron (see posts below) she has written Bribery and wedding bells in the Sunday Times, explaining, among other things:

I asked Cameron whether he had met anyone who would get married for £20 a week, because that’s the question everyone asked themselves when Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice policy group unveiled its married couple’s tax break a few months ago.

…which is certainly not how it came across at the time. Her piece is thoughtful and informative, but really doesn’t address the issue of how her question came across or how she could have handled it better to make the points she explains at length in The Sunday Times, if indeed such a detailed point was worth pursuing in that forum at that time.

Thank you to Peter Martin for the link.