As if to help Ming show how close Labour and the Tories are, Quentin Davies MP (who’s always struck me as a proper old Tory) has defected from the Conservatives to Labour. It’s in the BBC news ticker – will link to the story when it appears.

Update: Here it is.

The MP for Grantham and Stamford, made his decision public in a letter to Conservative leader David Cameron.

He wrote that under Mr Cameron the party “appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything”.
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“It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.”

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