Tucked away in the Whip column of The Sun is this item:
“Now senior Tories are aghast at rumours that David Cameron was rubbishing them during a private dinner recently. He is said to have told a pal: “I’ve got six or seven people in the Shadow Cabinet capable of working in the government. The rest are useless.”
The way—and where—The Sun has reported this story suggests it is not totally confident in it. But it is far from the first time that something like this has been reported. Last December, Fraser revealed how:
With his comfortable poll lead restored, Cameron should think about reshuffling the shadow cabinet. There is a considerable amount of talent on the backbenches—most notably Paul Goodman, Ed Vaizey, Maria Miller and the big beasts Ken Clarke and David Davis—who would improve it.“David Cameron has meanwhile been going back to his constituency and preparing for government. This has involved a fairly sober assessment of how many genuinely Cabinet-grade people he has on his team (he struggled to get into double digits).”
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