Quentin Davies Surprises Gordon Brown And Amazes Nobody

TORY MP Quentin Davies defets to Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. Davies can’t stomach Tory leader David David Cameron’s “vacuous” leadership.

Alice Miles writes:

All that sucking up from Gordon Brown … urgh. Just when you thought the next PM was planning how to take over and renew the Labour party, to raise new Labour to new heights, lead it to victory at a fourth general election - there he was sitting down and tickling the underbelly of Mr Davies, one of the most abjectly unimpressive of a pretty abjectly unimpressive bunch of Tory MPs.

Labour rejoices. “Gordon the Magician pulled a big, fluffy bunny of a Conservative out of the hat,” says the Mirror. But why would they need Davies? And what does Davies see in Brown - a kindred spirit?

Mr Davies’s switch could not have been better timed as political theatre to embarrass David Cameron, or as a boost to Labour before Gordon Brown’s appointment as Prime Minister later today. Mr Davies’s vituperative resignation letter, and his criticisms of Mr Cameron’s short-term style of decision-making, will reverberate around Westminster. It is unlikely to be the last such surprise from Mr Brown this week.

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