As Ed Balls knows, people tend only to remember one thing about a speech. A word if you’re lucky, a sentence if you’re really lucky. Or an image. Perhaps he was relyijg on HS2 to grab the headlines because the image he conjured up for us today was David Cameron getting changed in the beach with a Micky Mouse towel: not a fat Prime Minister, you understand. Balls tells us that his wife, Yvette Cooper, was impressed at how “for a 46-year-old man, David Cameron looked rather slim. Slim? What on earth she mean? And here’s the Jim Davidson-style punchline: “I just thought for a Prime Minister, it was a surprisingly small towel.”
Here’s his seaside comedy routine:
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