In a poll that was published as Ed Miliband launched his party manifesto, Labour was on course to hold as few as four of its 40 Scottish seats. Desperate times lead to desperate measures. Ed has spent four and a half years largely shunning trade unionists, never forgiving the favour they did in landing him the leadership win. Now I hear his office has requested an invitation to the 118th Scottish TUC in Ayr weeks before polling to appeal for solidarity from his tartan brothers and sisters. Ed’s heavy-handed treatment of Unite in Scotland – wasting police time by handing Stevie Deans and Karie Murphy to the cops during the Falkirk selection row – is coming back to haunt him.
To Witney in Oxfordshire, where a local recalled a grim-faced Cameron shuddering, “Samantha had some spicy things to say,” after he axed child benefit for wealthier families, including his own. Austerity shouldn’t start at home, eh, Mrs Heiress?
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