This is perhaps the real contrast between Mr Cameron and David Davis, who left the shadow cabinet last month to dramatise his disgust with Labour's erosion of civil liberties.
The two front-runners, David Davis and David Cameron, could hardly see things more differently.
Watching these programmes over the last few weeks, we've had - The Tory Party wants Kenneth Clarke, the Tory Party wants David Davis, The Tory Party wants David Cameron.
Former shadow home secretary David Davis, who was defeated by Mr Cameron for the Conservative Party leadership in 2005, has called for a referendum on Europe within three months of a general election.
Mr Davis's crusade is (for Mr Cameron) a worrying return to priorities other than taking and wielding power.
Dominic Grieve, whom Mr Cameron hurriedly (perhaps too hurriedly) appointed in Mr Davis's stead, is a sometimes supercilious-seeming barrister.
Some - including Cameron's camp apparently - felt we'd set up Mr Davis by shooting him surrounded by portraits of Conservative elder statesmen, including an imperious Lady Thatcher.
Modernising Mr Cameron wouldn't have been seen dead in such a setting, but Davis knew what buttons he was pressing.
Although Mr Davis was comprehensively outplayed this week by both Ken Clarke and David Cameron, the leadership is still his to lose.
Mr Davis, who lost the contest to become Tory leader to David Cameron in 2005, said UKIP's policies on law and order, immigration, taxation, foreign affairs, and Europe "mimic a simplified 1980s Tory manifesto".
But Mr Davis told The House magazine that any of his colleagues seeking to challenge David Cameron test were "daft".
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