Green arrest adds Tory edge
| ANALYSIS By Iain Watson BBC Political Correspondent |
 Mr Green's arrest is putting pressure on Gordon Brown |
The arrest of the shadow immigration spokesman Damian Green has allowed the Conservative leader David Cameron to get on the front foot, after struggling to make his voice heard during the credit crunch.
He used not the comment pages of a highbrow and voluminous Sunday broadsheet to discuss issues of ancient liberty and the right of the present-day opposition to hold government to account, but the tabloid pulpit of the News of the World.
He is trying to reach beyond the Westminster village and tell people who might otherwise not have heard of his assiduous, but not exactly high-profile, immigration spokesman why this arrest matters.
And he has put both the prime minister and the home secretary in a bit of a tight spot.
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