Just seen this post over on Stuart Bruce’s blog in which he touches on the continuing row over McBride-gate (or is it email-gate? Surely it’s a gate by now.)

I agree with Stuart when he says the row has on on too long, in fact I thought it had gone on too long by Tuesday and was fast descending into the kind of Westminster gossip that nobody outside of parliament and the lobby correspondents gives a flying foxtrot about. I think this, not because it wasn’t serious, it was, but because I am looking at it from a party political point of view.

If Cameron really wants to stick it to Brown he should publicly forgive him and focus on getting back to the serious business of government. It’s his trump card – he gets to end the scandal, play the statesman and counter the most damaging attack against him, namely that he lacks gravitas. Despite the obvious temptation to twist the knife, he risks losing that trump card if it goes on much longer and the media start to lose interest.

That’s all… I’m going home now.

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