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Cameron followed this by a call for visa restrictions on Russian citizens wanting to visit Britain. Given the large number of Russian billionaires and obligarchs who at present use London as a playground, emporium and money-mine, this is serious talk and points to a genuine Russian vulnerability. It an area where Britain has more ability to act than the U.S.: New York is not the second home for Russian obligarchs that London has become.

He also called for Moscow to be suspended from the G8 group of industrial nations and for its talks on a partnership agreement with the EU to be frozen: "We must make clear that the path [Russia] has chosen leads to isolation and contempt. We should suspend Russia from the G8 and suspend negotiations on a partnership with the European Union."

He said that Russia's elite valued their ties to Europe, particularly "their shopping and their luxury weekends," and added: "Russian armies can't march into other countries while Russian shoppers carry on marching into Selfridges."

Cameron today is looking as if he has he moral fiber that Britain's next Prime Minister is going to need, both for steering the ship in a turbulent international situation and, by extension, for repairing the terrible cultural and social damage in Britain today which is, in large part, a legacy of 11 years of Labour misrule.

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