I don’t know if it’s just because I am tired and desperate to go on holiday, but it seems that Gordon Brown has succeeded in taking the sting out of politics to such an extent that it’s difficult to get too excited about anything.
Not so long ago I suggested Brown and Cameron should go away and concentrate on making politics boring again. The continued presence of the all-too-interesting Blair, the excitements of the Cash for Honours affair and Cameron’s eye for a gimmick all made this unlikely in the short term.
With Scotland Yard no longer sniffing around Downing Street and Blair out of the way, this now looks like a real possibility — and no bad thing I say. Constitutional reform and the nitty-gritty detail of education, health, housing, and transport policy: none of this is designed to get the pulses racing, but it is much better at serving the public interest than the mania for initiatives we saw under Blair.
The only person who needs to play his part is David Cameron, who will have to stop these quirky trips to Africa if he really wants to surf the zeitgeist.
Meanwhile, the new, all-action Conservative press office seems to have reacted to the crisis by going into press release overdrive. They have sent out eight since lunchtime alone.
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