The Laws of politics

David Laws, the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is not a man to whom you should send a personal letter. If he thinks that blabbing its contents to the press will help him politically, he will. His Labour predecessor Liam Byrne has discovered this, to his embarrassment. I wonder how his new Conservative colleagues will view him after this.

Steve Bell, who seems to be having quite a bit of fun with our new overlords, thinks Laws is a cross between Blair and Thatcher: