Three days to go to the Mayoral election and you can't move in London without seeing the Evening Standard doing their bit with an anti-Ken headline. Meanwhile, outside the capital, it is really pleasing to see that general election campaigns are going great guns in the kind of seats we need to see turned around to ensure a Cameron government. This News of the World piece may not have grabbed the interest of the literati but I can tell you that it (and the big boost in the polls it describes) has buoyed up campaigns in seats like Luton North and South no end (is your electorate on their list of seats that may fall to the Tories? If so, what did you think?).
I was up in Luton this weekend for a St George's Day fundraising lunch: the candidates, my friend (and ConservativeHome columnist) Jeremy Brier, and his colleague Nigel Huddleston and their associations put on a good joint event, with guest speaker Theresa Villiers MP turning in just the sort of Eurosceptic, freedom-and-liberty, front-foot-forward speech ConservativeHome readers would like - a forensic analysis of the many faults of Labour under Brown, and a powerful call to arms that saw the good burghers of Luton leave with their tails up. Good stuff all round.
I shall see if I can get a copy of Theresa's list of Brown's calamities - if I can, I shall pop it up here.
