Monday
Tremendous excitement after the PBR. Dave called us into The Cauldron, our inner sanctum, for a top-secret briefing. Felt v privileged to be there, just me and 150 other core members of CCHQ. Dave was wonderful. He completely cleared up any nagging doubts we might have had as to why we are not opposing the rise in the top rate. It’s deeply strategic stuff, but suffice to say he and Mr Letwin, and Gids obviously, have worked out that standing up for the middle classes is precisely what Labour thinks we will do, and therefore precisely what we will NOT do — genius! We are drawing on our hugely successful strategy of not attacking Labour’s spending plans, which I think you will recall was terrifically effective for a year before we had to drop it and do a U-turn. So, you will not hear me, or anyone else in the Compassionate Conservative party, standing up for Middle England and its big fat pay packets.
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