Yet Mr Brown may have created a falsedichotomy of his own not between policies, as he accuses Lord Lawson of doing, but between his approach and his predecessor's.
Now along comes Gray saying, in effect, that not only is the liberal-conservative dichotomy not false, but that AOL intends to work both sides of it by maintaining two public faces.
The dichotomy between positive and negative liberty is in many ways a false one it is simply a moral debate over a list of things that we should be free from.