In the middle of August we started a new feature on ConHome called Tories on Today, to record the appearances by Conservative politicians on Radio 4's Today programme.
Yet this week's schedule shows that the scorers have barely been troubled, with the only Conservatives interviewed on the programme over the last five days being Bob Neill MP, Graham Stuart MP and Murdo Fraser MSP - and all in discussions with others.
Today's edition of the programme has already attracted particular opprobrium (see Tweets from Fraser Nelson and Tim Montgomerie of this parish) for giving generous amounts of airtime to senior Labour figures, with Ed Balls and John Prescott both getting one-on-one opportunities to address the nation.
But probably most questionable today was the decision to invite Sally Bercow to talk about William and Ffion Hague's dealings with the press this week, in the context of her being a politician's wife.
Whilst she is married to an MP, the fact is that she is a politician in her own right, having stood as a Labour council candidate at the local elections this year and indicated her desire to fight a parliamentary seat in the future. I believe she has every right to do that and, furthermore, don't blame her for one moment for taking any opportunity she is offered to promote herself in the media (and credit to her for the fact that she - not the presenter - raised her own foray into electoral politics this morning).
But surely it is wrong for the Today Programme to parade as a politician's wife, someone who has a very partisan agenda of her own?
