The knives are out

There is an increasingly forlorn feeling around the shadow business secretary Alan Duncan.

The Telegraph has a senior Conservative saying MPs involved in the Tories' regional visits programme are the ones who will be included in a new shadow government.

The piece claims Duncan ruled himself out by going skiing instead and incurred Cameron's anger, but that's just hot air.

If Cameron wanted to get rid of Duncan, he wanted to do it before Christmas – the ski trip is neither here nor there.

The Tories might be a new party, but if there is one thing they’ve become expert at over they years it is manoeuvring against each other.

Clarke is waiting.