Rather than prices, David Cameron should fix the energy mess | Simon Jenkins

If a Tory prime minister can 'pass a law' on utility bills, then he can make a decision on where our power should come from

David Cameron's way of running the country becomes ever more eccentric. This week he was like a dyspeptic columnist. On Wednesday he raged about soaring energy prices, leapt up in the House of Commons and said he would "pass a law" against them. That is the joy of being a Blairite prime minister. Margaret Thatcher would have spent hours fussing over how to do what she sai...