The last time I was invited to Alan Duncan’s office in the House of Commons I took a film camera with me. I didn’t hide it and took a film crew along with me. Duncan was charming, if a little cheesy, and talked eloquently about why Ken Livingstone’s oil deal with Hugo Chavez was bad news for London and Venezuela.
But during the interview there was something that gave me a glimpse into Alan Duncan’s soul. Not an off-the-cuff comment about MPs having to live on rations. But a framed photograph proudly displayed on a bookshelf. It was a screenshot from Prime Minister’s questions of Alan Duncan alongside George Osborne and they were — there is no other word for it — braying. It was posh Tories in their full pomp and it sent a shiver up the spine. This, I thought, is what we have to look forward to.
There is a scenario that David Cameron and his inner circle should consider.
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