In an interview with the Sunday Times's Style magazine, actress Helena Bonham Carter claimed that her friend David Cameron was "not a rightwing person. If he was in America, he'd be a Democrat".
Are there any other British politicians you could see thriving outside the straitjacket of British party politics? Could Nick Clegg revive Germany's free-market FDP? Would George Galloway have a chance of running for France's Socialist party? And likewise, which politicians from abroad would be a good match for parties in British politics?
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