• Gilding Gideon

 Quite an amusing article at ConservativeHome bigging up Gideon under the headline "Chancellor-in-waiting". This in particular made me chuckle:

 

It is clear that Mr Osborne will not be appointed as the powerful Chairman that ConservativeHome had hoped he would become. He is going to remain Shadow Chancellor. Fair enough. But it is now important that many more voters want to trust him with the nation's finances. He needs to look in charge of his brief. Solid. Reassuring.

 

He's got to get over this image of him (and much of the rest of the Tory front bench/party) for me: