Amid increasing signs that voters are largely, and quite rightly, unimpressed by Tory leader Cameron’s lurch to the center-left, it’s interesting to read what veteran Thatcherite Robin Harris has to say about Britain’s new model Conservative party: “Having abandoned the issues of immigration, crime, Europe and tax as distastefully populist, the Tory manifesto may look a little thin. “

Indeed it does.

Best moment in the piece, however, is this delicious flash of the stiletto: “Cameron was bright and personable when, after some judicious prodding from a royal equerry, I gave him his first job at the Conservative research department.”

Ha ha ha.