Have you seen this man?

Iain Dale has his monthly table of shadow cabinet media mentions up and as always it makes for interesting reading. Amazingly, Peter Ainsworth, the Tory environment spokesman, got a mere 57 mentions in July despite the 24/7 media coverage of the floods. Indeed, his Liberal Democrat opposite number Chris Huhne got more attention than Ainsworth as did 18 of his shadow cabinet colleagues.

The numbers also show the need for the shadow cabinet as a whole to up its game. Currently, David Cameron gets more press than the 31 members others of it combined. While if Nick Clegg was a Tory he’d be eighth in the table. All of which raises the question of whether the shadow cabinet can continue to carry so many part-timers.