Tory leader David Cameron stepped up his attacks against Prime Minister and Labor leader Gordon Brown in recent weeks, after several controversies involving Labor leaders broke out.

After shadow immigration minister Damian Green was arrested, Cameron urged the Prime Minister to speak out against the arrest which he deems purely political.

Writing in News of the World Cameron said: “When it comes to vigorous opposition, if this approach had been in place in the 1990s, then Gordon Brown would have spent most of his time under arrest.

“He made his career from passing on Whitehall leaks. And he’ll be guilty of hypocrisy if he doesn’t speak out,” he said, - insisting the arrest was “not about our national security but government embarrassment”.

He wrote: “The Prime Minister has simply repeated that he ‘had no prior knowledge’ and this is ‘a police matter’. Frankly, that’s not good enough.

“The question is: does he think it is right for an MP who has apparently done nothing to breach our national security - and everything to inform the public of information they’re entitled to know - to have his home and office searched by a dozen counter-terrorist police officers, his phone, Blackberry and computers confiscated, and to be arrested and held for nine hours?”

Cameron is far from the only one who believes the arrest to be purely political. It has been called the first political arrest in modern history.

Not only did Cameron denounced the arrest, veteran Labor former Cabinet minister Tony Benn called it a “direct attack on Parliamentary democracy by the police” and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg dubbed it “something you might expect from a tin-pot dictatorship.”

Cameron wrote: “Of course no one is above the law. But in a democracy there is an important line to be drawn when it comes to acting in the public interest.”

The ’sensitive leaks’ Green was arrested for are, among others: ‘the disclosure that 5,000 illegal immigrants were working as security guards and bouncers; news that an illegal immigrant was employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons; a whip’s list of potential Labour rebels against 42-day detention for terror suspects; and a letter from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to Mr Brown warning that the recession would spark a rise in crime.’

In short: information that makes the government looks bad but does nothing, and I mean nothing, to jeapordize national security.

In addition to the controversy above, Cameron has also started to hold Prime Minister Brown responsible for the economic crisis in Britain. Although most eyes in the world are aimed at the United States, the British economy is fairing much worse than its American counterpart. It already is in a recession and is expected to continue falling in the coming months. The man in charge of the economy for the last 10 years: Gordon Brown, then chancellor now prime minister.

As if that is not enough, there is also a controversy involving (illegal) donations to Labor, which the Prime Minister himself described as “unlawful acts.” In a debate in the House of Commons, Cameron aggressively criticized Brown arguing that the latter’s denial of knowledge about the alleged illegal donations stretches the imagination. Additionally, Cameron argued, since the prime minister called the acts “unlawful” and “unjustifiable” he “has the duty to call in the police himself” instead of waiting what the electoral commission thinks of it.

“The public sees the prime minister just wriggling, that is the fact of the it,” Cameron said. He went on to call Brown’s denial unlikely to be true considering that even Brown’s closest allies call him a control freak.

“I have to say,” Cameron said, “the prime minister’s whole explanation beggers belief. This goes to questions of the prime minister’s own integrity.”

“Does he really expect us to believe that someone who even his own believe is a control freak was preparing for an election, sorting out the finances, sitting around the table with everyone who was caught up in this scandal and yet didn’t have the first idea of what was going on?”

“We have had,” he went on to say in his blistering attack, “155 days of this government, we’ve had disaster after disaster, a run on a bank, half the country’s details lost in the post, and now this. His excuses, they go from incompetence to complacency and there are questions about his integrity. Aren’t people rightly asking now ‘is this man simply not cut out for the job?’”

The House of Commons was turned upside down instantly, with the speaker being forced to call for order.

Cameron’s recent attacks indicate that the Tories believe that Brown is ripe for slaughter. He made a relative comeback in the polls shortly after the economic crisis hit, which once again reminded Tory leaders of the need to keep the pressure on Brown and to hold him responsible and accountable for his administration’s mistakes.

One expects the debate in Britain to continue on this tone and in this vein in the coming months and two years. Brown is a weak prime minister, while Cameron has turned out to be a more than competent opposition leader and debater. Former Prime Minister and Labor leader Tony Blair and Cameron were each other’s equal in the debate, Brown is a far less competent debater (and prime minister for that matter). Cameron smells blood, and will undoubtedly move in for the kill whenever he can.

Britain finally has a strong conservative leader. Now the rest of Europe needs to follow.

Watch a video of Cameron going after Brown on the illegal donations controversy: