Diary of a Notting Hill nobody – 9 June 2006

Monday

Exhausted. Have ploughed through nearly 30 pages (a record for me) of our 500-page briefing on Gideon’s speech and I’m still no wiser. Are we going to cut taxes or not? Call me a ‘Thatcherite’ (banned word in the new pocket Book of Dave for all staff), but shouldn’t we be a bit clearer about this stuff now that we are going to be in power? Sherwood, our in-house creative-thinking specialist, has come up with a handy way to remember it: we’ve gone from flat tax to flatter taxes to our position now, which is gently reclining taxes, he says....