Did anyone proofread the Labour manifesto?

‘Do you mind not splitting your infinitives then. Dear me’, said Alastair Campbell to a Tory candidate on Twitter last night. After chastising Beth Prescott, who is standing against Yvette Cooper in Normanton, Campbell was given an earful:

.@campbellclaret I’m a young, Northern, former apprentice trying to make a positive difference&best you can do is patronise me?@LouiseMensch

— Beth Prescott (@Beth4Pontefract) April 13, 2015

Ouch.

While we are on the topic of perfect grammar, shall we have a look at Labour’s manifesto? The one that Campbell has been spinning all day.

‘We are a great country’ says the foreword. Britain is a great country, yes. We are the people of a great country. Scan down four paragraphs and we are missing a full stop.

Mr S also thinks he can detect the hand of Miliband’s American adviser David Axelrod in the manifesto. The American spelling of ‘license’ is used twice instead of ‘licence’, although the party hasn’t yet become ‘Labor’.