There is a remarkably thin line between novel and novelty. In the past six weeks, Ed Davey, a serial political campaigning rule violator who just happens to be the leader of the freshly triumphant Liberal Democrats, appears to have used that thin line as a conduit for electoral success.
The bare necessities to be taken seriously in the political establishment in Britain apparently include: a navy blue overgarment, white shirt, received pronunciation, Churchillian references and a reasonably photogenic (or at least elusive) spouse. But Davey has shown us an alternative way.
