Monday
Mr Maude ecstatic about the polls. Says it’s the most significant narrowing he has seen in all his years of being miserable about the possibility of the Tories ever winning again. ‘Only four points ahead! We’re doomed! DOOMED I tell you!’ All the way to the Panic Room he was shouting: ‘Consigned to the scrap heap! Banished to the electoral wilderness! We’ve brought this on ourselves with all the evil talk of spending cuts!’ Of course this is complete nonsense. We only talked about spending cuts for ten minutes two weeks ago. It was barely briefed before we took it straight back, rubbished it and claimed we had never said it. Which of course we hadn’t.
Tuesday
Super speech by Dave this morning about spending cuts. Really nailed it. While it is not the case that we ever asked Mr Letwin to go through Whitehall budgets to root out wasteful spending, Dave has asked every shadow minister to go through their budgets line by line to root out wasteful spending.
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