I’m on the train back from Question Time (most of the panel stayed in Newcastle last night) and I am again sitting three seats down from a man who has come to personify the Tories’ problem. Vince Cable was lauded by Alan Duncan and Ruth Kelly for his leadership on Northern Rock – before, after and during filming. Why is Brown now back in the lead on economic management? What has he done right that Osborne has not done? My take:-
1. Cable knows his Onions. He has been as constant as the north star on this, where the Tories’ position has been complex and changing. Who in Britain can explain what the Tory position is? That’s the problem.
2. Cable works hard at it. He’s on the phone now, talking journalists through the wider points and finest detail in language so engaging that the rest of our train carriage (incl.
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