I have watched a little of the Conservative Conference. George Osborne did quite well, Theresa May did well under the circumstances (the Home Office brief is the toughest one at Conservative conferences, where most of the attendees will be satisfied with little less than the reintroduction of capital and corporal punishment).
It seemed that each speaker had been ordered to use the words 'in the national interest' at least twice. Some said almost nothing else.
The problem with political parties espousing the national interest is that our traditional way of expressing it is through the ballot box and nobody voted for the coalition, for the simple reason it wasn't on the ballot paper.
The coalition's policies are concocted in the political classes' interests, and we shall see in due course if they conform with the national one.
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