Dave has finally surfaced after hiding under the radar for this week’s homnishambles. Popping up on the Today programme, he claimed he “did not accept” that large parts of the Tory party do not feel he “represents them”, snappily telling the presenters that he would know as he “spends more time with the voluntary Conservative Party than anyone in this room”. Who are far too often “yes men”.

He’s starting to look a little delusional given the number of Tory activists defecting to UKIP; the swathes of grassroots hitting the airwaves to complain about him; as well the disquiet of many of his own backbenchers. It’s hard to believe the Prime Minister “does not accept” many in his party really despise him. Whether he cares or not is a different matter.

One life long Tory described the PM to Guido just yesterday as “worse than that traitor Heath”. Guido was told recently that the PM’s mail was being screened so he was not seeing the huge amounts of correspondence coming in from his own constituents on the gay marriage issue. We all know what happens to PMs that go into a bunker mentality…