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What is it about high public office that makes ministers imagine we think the better of them because of their professed interest in sports? Yet imagine it they do – and few of them more assiduously than David Cameron, who, while visiting Kazakhstan, tweeted his best wishes to Laura Robson at Wimbledon. Sadly, Ms Robson's unhappy defeat a few hours later was par for the course for this PM's messages of encouragement, with the teenage tennis star joining Lewis Hamilton, Tom Daley, the England football team and Andy Murray on the list of those who have lost important contests after Mr Cameron has wished them his best. There is now so much talk of a "curse of Cameron" blighting the chances of a generation of sporting Brits that the Lions' rugby team must be dreading a tweet of support from No 10 this weekend. Maybe "Disaster Dave" should stick to politics and target his good luck messages to Conservative candidates.What is it about high public office that makes ministers imagine we think the better of them because of their professed interest in sports? Yet imagine it they do – and few of them more assiduously than David Cameron, who, while visiting Kazakhstan, tweeted his best wishes to Laura Robson at Wimbledon. Sadly, Ms Robson's unhappy defeat a few hours later was par for the course for this PM's messages of encouragement, with the teenage tennis star joining Lewis Hamilton, Tom Daley, the England football team and Andy Murray on the list of those who have lost important contests after Mr Cameron has wished them his best. There is now so much talk of a "curse of Cameron" blighting the chances of a generation of sporting Brits that the Lions' rugby team must be dreading a tweet of support from No 10 this weekend. Maybe "Disaster Dave" should stick to politics and target his good luck messages to Conservative candidates.
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