If David Cameron’s speech today is more about backbench management than it is about his desperate desire to talk about immigration, then he needs to make sure that what he says is enough to satisfy most in his party.
His aides and PPS Gavin Williamson were calling round key MPs last night to give them a briefing on what the speech would include, presumably in an attempt to persuade them that this really is a good speech with good policies that they can sell on the doorstep.
MPs I’ve spoken to overnight and this morning seem reasonably happy with what they’ve heard before the speech. Andrew Bridgen, long a thorn in the Prime Minister’s flesh, says:
‘This will focus minds. European leaders are not going to roll over immediately and give it to him but it really lifts the stakes.
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