What does it matter if Samantha Cameron voted Labour once?

So what if Samantha Cameron has voted Labour in the past? When I saw this story flash up on the wires last night, I wondered what the big deal was. But to splash the Mail on Sunday on it? Everyone knows that she is not the stereotypical Tory wife: she has a tattoo on her ankle, she spent her student years shooting pool and hanging out with musicians. Then she married a politician. It happens. But that the Wife of the Leader come with a pure voting pedigree is not something that even Cameron’s fiercest critics would expect.

If the wider charge is that Cameron’s social circle is not a pure Conservative one, then that is more reason than ever for wanting him to lead the party and country. It is precisely SamCam’s independent nature that marks her out.