Dave's gift

I forgot to mention, in all the budget day excitement, that Julia Goldsworthy told me her appointment as a Special Advisor to Danny Alexander had been approved personally by the Prime Minister. Does this make David Cameron the first Conservative Prime Minister for a very long time not to read the Daily Telegraph?

Camborne & Redruth's Conservative MP George Eustice, who took some flak from Julia during the election campaign over the inappropriate influence of hired-guns at Westminster, takes it all very stoically. "We're all on the same side now," he tells me.