Apparently Alastair Campbell is frantically texting round the great and the good to try and drum up numbers for tomorrow night’s Labour fundraiser at Wembley. Bit late now… One person has apparently been phoned 8 times asked to buy a c. £15,000 table. Still saying no.

In contrast, the room last night for George Osborne’s speech was full, not just with young thrusting Cameroon boys and girls, but with an extraordinaryly large number of civil servant high fliers, no doubt eager to know what the new masters will demand of them. In the words of Bob Dylan:

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.