Or is he the English Mart Laar?

An otherwise mundane article about David Cameron’s visit to Sweden contains this description of the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt.

He has been dubbed the “Swedish David Cameron”

Is it just me, or does that sound like the dubbing of a British newspaper? Maybe I’m wrong, and Swedish voters are so familiar with the cut-and-thrust of British politics that the Leader of the Opposition is a recognised political benchmark from Stockholm to Skane.

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