The Davis story

A few months ago, I was told that David Davis had confessed at a dinner party that he didn’t believe the next Cameron government would be very Tory, and didn’t see the point in staying. I put this to both Mr Davis and a few of his friends. All laughed it off. Mr Davis said he was perhaps a little bored waiting for the 42 days vote, but not unhappy. (This, by the way, is typical of the way he’s played down any split with Cameron at every opportunity in private as well as public). One of his friends told me that it wasn’t so. “I’m not just saying this, I know David and would know if he genuinely felt that way,” I was told. So I put it down to the kind of maudlin thoughts that can often come after a long dinner which stretches too far into the wee small hours.