Who's next to catch the gaffe virus?
Perhaps it was being out with Boris Johnson on Friday.
This gaffe virus is getting so infectious that now David Cameron has caught it.
Writing in the Guardian Mr Cameron said: "The one progressive new idea we hear will be in Labour's manifesto - the living wage - is actually a Conservative policy: Boris Johnson has already introduced it in London.
"But Gordon Brown has signally failed to speak out on fair pay, whether in the public or private sector, and it falls to a radical Conservative party to take a lead."
Come again?
The living wage was introduced in London by Ken Livingstone.
He wrote in the Guardian on Saturday: The London living wage was introduced by my administration five years ago, after I gave a commitment to do so during the 2004 mayoral campaign.
"If Cameron wants to fight Labour by showing that he's forward-looking he will need a better example than a policy Labour introduced five years ago. With this error he actually demonstrates the exact opposite of his case - he shows that once again the Tories are way behind the curve at best, and outright fakers a lot more of the time."
It's true though that Gordon Brown hasn't adopted it but Mr Cameron will no doubt continue to praise the idea of a living wage now he knows who first thought of it.
I'm BBC London's political editor and presenter of the London section of the Politics Show. Here I'll be identifying the key talking points during the election campaign and trying to offer a reality check to the many promises that you'll hear up to polling day. Your thoughts welcome.
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