Bacon sandwiches and 50p tax at Cameron’s presser

There were cold bacon sandwiches on offer at Cameron’s press conference this morning, arranged for 9.15am to get it in before Gordon Brown’s presser with the Iraqi PM (no shoes thrown at Brown), and to time it with the passing of the Coldstream Guards band playing outside. Well, the latter was perhaps a coincidence. But it did make it all seem like one of those IDS-era party conferences where they had Nimrod playing in the background. Anyway, my highlights:

1) SPENDING “We’ve said for some time ‘you’re spending too much in 2009, you’re spending too much in 2010’.” It’s hilarious hearing Cameron claim to have been some kind of prophet in the wilderness, wailing about cuts. In Cheltenham, he made it sound all historic: “We said they should reduce their spending plans back in 2008.” Way back in 2008, eh? What he really meant was “mid-November”. That, of course, sounds a lot less impressive.