Guido has mentioned this before, but its worth repeating, 63 MPs claim to be backing Basher for Leader, 57 voted for him. So 10% of his listed backers are proven liars.

A. Not Prescott.

As long time readers will know I tend to keep a low profile during bonfire night. But I commend Backing Blair’s proposal for the night – to burn Tony Blair in effigy.

A. “The honourable thing” if you are Dave Cameron according to The Mirror.

Guido welcomes the Daily Politics show’s Jenny Scott to our screens. Andrew Neil always likes a bit of totty to be near to hand. But what has happened to her mini-skirts? She now seems to be wearing trouser suits. Boo!

Didn’t Neil make it a contractural obligation?

Is Guido the only one who thinks the Daily Politics is much better than Andrew Marr’s new show and has energised the often dry reporting of politics?

David Mellor on Basher in yesterday’s Standard.

Alas poor Davis, I knew him well. Far too well to be remotely attracted to the idea of him as Tory leader. Self obsessed, disloyal and possessed of an opinion of himself so stratospherically high no one else can be expected to share it… On a public platform, he is an inarticulate stumblebum, off it he exudes an air of menace based on a largely spurious reputation as a tough guy. It not to the political commentators but to the late Mae West we need to look for enlightenment about him. ‘Men who pretend to be macho, are often not up to mucho’ she opined, and I can’t disagree.

Come on Mellor, get off the fence…