In a deliberately provocativespeech, David Cameron, the Tory leader, adopted the metaphor of a caravan crossing the desert to highlight the importance of making sure that the income growth of the poorest keeps pace with the rest.
How, precisely, would the Tories rectify the fiscal position, as they frequently but vaguely pledge to? (Mr Osborne was at it again this week, making aprovocative but sketchy speech on the savings to be made through public-service reform.) How would it feel, after a gap of 13 years, to have a Conservative government?