Until recently, the Tory leadership has been reluctant to plan how they would respond to a Corbyn-led Labour party. They just couldn’t believe that Labour were actually going to elect him. At the Cabinet’s pre-holiday get together at Chequers, the conversation about how to take on the new Labour leader was premised on the idea that either Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper would win. But now the Tories are working out how they would tackle Corbyn. (Though, two Cabinet Ministers have told me this week that they expect Cooper to pip Corbyn at the post).
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The Tory leadership is keen to avoid sounding triumphalist about the prospect of facing the MP for Islington North. One of those closest to Cameron stresses that he will take Corbyn seriously because, as they put it, Corbyn would do serious damage to the country if elected.
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