Damn, I have to stop reading the Metro on the train in the morning. It's one thing to get the blood pumping in the morning, it's quite another to get the blood boiling - which I sometimes think is the chief aim of the the paper. The story that grabbed my eye this morning, mainly because

Continuing my occasional series on what a complete and utter vacuous twat our likely next Prime Minister appears to be, let's look at his speech at Bloomberg: Mr Cameron said his party's support for the Prime Minister's bank bail-out did not mean he backed its wider economic policies which had been clearly exposed as "a complete and utter failure". What is particularly infuriating a...

Asked for more details on the Prime Minister’s idea of a bonus claw-back scheme, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that clearly this was something that needed to be discussed with the banks and others, and worked through. The Prime Minister set out two main principles this morning in relation to bank bonuses. The first was that there should be no reward for f...

Put that bankers had been in front of the Select Committee this morning and had the Prime Minister been aware of what they had said, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had had Cabinet this morning and had since been in other meetings, so he didn’t really want to comment on that evidence session while it was still on going and when the Prime Minister had not had an opportunity to ex...

Another Wednesday, another Prime Minister's Questions... The Prime Minister's limp-wristed reshuffle of his Cabinet is bound to be brought up by David Cameron, but GoBo could turn the tables on the Tory leader by pointing out some seemingly off-message remarks by the shadow health secretary this morning. Andrew Lansley indicated that in order for the Tories to increase "real-term" spendi...

Asked whether the Prime Minister thought it was time for a novice, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he assumed the journalist s question referred to the election of Barack Obama and that the Prime Minister had given his views on the election this morning. Asked whether the Prime Minister had been able to call the President Elect, the PMS said that the Prime Minist...

Asked for details on the conference the Prime Minister referred to in his speech this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Prime Minister s view was that it would be a good idea for world leaders to get together, however it will be important that when they do get together they had something of substance to discuss. We were now clearly in a position where most of the major...

Asked for the Prime Minister s response to Alan Milburn s call for change, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had not had chance to read the article as he had been somewhat preoccupied with other matters. Asked about the MORI polls this morning, the PMS replied that again these were not really the issues that the Prime Minister was thinking about or focusing on. The Prime Minister was solely ...

Asked if the Prime Minister had a favourite foreign Finance Minister, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that if this was a thinly veiled attempt to get him to comment on the German Finance Minister s remarks, the Prime Minister was asked a similar question in an interview with London s LBC Radio this morning, and gave the following quote I do not really want to get involved in what is c...

Asked if Mervyn King met with the Prime Minister this morning, and if they discussed interest rates, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that obviously interest rates were a matter for the Bank of England and something he would not be commenting on. The Governor of the Bank of England was in the building this morning, but he was meeting the Chancellor not the Prime Minister. Asked to clar...