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I’ll be the size of a house if these lunches continue. Ha Ha on Monday. Mash yesterday. The Dorchester today. Somewhere or other tomorrow. Another four lined up for next week. A few for the week after that… so far. I wonder if we could do meetings in gyms instead. There must be an opening for up-market salad bars with tables big enough for business.

I’ve reached tea saturation point, too. That’s what comes of having decent tea and coffee-making facilities.

Was still in the office after seven when the IDS-ousting was announced. No great surprise there. Anyone who couldn’t see that coming on the very day he got the job is clearly blind. I remember the surprise in the LBC newsroom on the night he was elected to the job, 777 days ago. We were all stood around one of the TVs slung low from the ceiling, fully expecting it to go to Ken Clarke.

Best quote of the day comes from BBC News:

John Strafford, head of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, said the way Mr Duncan Smith had been removed was totally undemocratic. He told BBC News Online: “It looks to me like the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux Tapestry.”

So a secret ballot is undemocratic? Hmmm… Now there’s a party in touch with reality.

Perhaps now there will be some real opposition to the government, but I doubt it. The Tories have never really recovered from the Thatcher downfall.

Still, IDS can’t be too upset. I hear he gets a

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