Will the civil service help Cameron rein-in his frontbenchers' spending ambitions?

In his Telegraph column today, Ben Brogan asks one of the most important political questions of all: do the Tories have a plan for dealing with the mess they face in government? They talk tough on debt and spending, for sure, but the details are still kinda lacking. Is there anything behind the rhetoric? And, if there is, will they pull it off?

Of course, the only proper answer is: let’s wait and see. The proof of this particular pudding will come in the event of a Conservative election victory and, then, in the Emergency Budget that George Osborne has pencilled in for June or July. On that front, one senior Tory tells Brogan that they’re ready to set their phasers to radical – but only after the election: “We are Thatcherites, we are ready to take difficult decisions, but we can’t say it publicly in case nobody votes for us.”