Dave’s dance with Nigel

David Cameron's strategy so far has been to ape Ukip rather than take on Nigel Farage's party. Enily Hohler reports.

The prime minister is still reluctant to fight Ukip head-on, says Dan Hodges in The Daily Telegraph. His latest plan "to limit EU migration by capping the number of national insurance numbers distributed to foreign nationals" just shows that David Cameron "has chosen to dance with Nigel Farage".

Cameron's strategy in the upcoming Rochester by-election will be "an attempt to neutralise Farage's party" by imitation rather than taking the fight to Ukip. "Sooner or later Cameron is going to have to make a choice. Either he will have to confront Ukip head on, or he will have to pack his bags and move out of Downing Street."

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.