Martin Salter - working hard for Reading West
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  • Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
  • Westminster Diary

  • I couldn’t help being amused this week at the contortions that David Cameron and his spin doctors are going through to try and “de-posh” the Tory Party. Apparently Conservative candidates in Tory target seats have been told by “Dave” himself to shorten any double barrelled or posh sounding names to make them seem like ordinary folk. I see that Simon Radford-Kirby (Brighton Kemptown) now has dropped the Radford from his name and Scott Seaman-Digby, the Tories’ Commercial Director, now likes to be called Scott Digby in deference to his leader’s wishes.

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