I am just out of doing BBC news interview, where they were discussing the public reaction to Davis. Eveyone in Westminster thinks Davis is mad, loopy, gone off on one, etc. But 95% of the comments to the BBC’s extensive listener and viewer response says this is a very welcome break from the tired identikit politics of Westminster.
When I spoke to Davis this morning and asked him if he knew he’d be denounced as a madman, he said yes. But he said he genuinely believes in the cause, and that he hopes the public would recognise this authenticity. It could just be that Davis is right, and the political class is wrong. That this 58 year old former soldier and businessman has found a modern theme that the Cameroons missed.
I do hope Peter Oborne does this in his “politics and power” column for the Daily Mail on Saturday. Because Davis has just forsaken power for politics, jumping ship on his way up.
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