Not content with picking up the support of Chris Perry in Hampshire, David Cameron has now got the approbation of that paragon of British politics, the far-left MP George Galloway.

In an interview with the Scotland on Sunday, George Galloway lends Dave a hand: “Looked at objectively, I would have to say I can see his appeal. It will play – it is playing right now.” He adds: “He is doing and saying the right things. His job is to slay the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.”