Picture the scene. Prime Minister's Questions, Brown on the ropes. Cameron has made one of the most savage attacks on him ever heard, and the vastly underrated Vince Cable says the PM has transformed 'from Stalin to Mr Bean'.
Blow after low is landing on Brown. A senior Conservative backbencher stands up. Will this be the coup de grace? No, for it is Sir Patrick Cormack, who defuses the tension by asking the PM what he would like for Christmas. The relief on the Labour benches is palpable.
Cormack features in the opening paragraphs of Peter Oborne's book 'The Triumph of the Political Class' for a couple of instances of his refusing to damage or embarrass the Government. He is almost the archetype Political Class man: we are all in this together, the little cadre that run the country; we don't want any fisticuffs, or strongly held views.
Really, his constituency needs to deselect him pronto.
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