This morning The Daily Telegraph's  Benedict Brogan provides another reason why the Conservatives are not as far ahead in the opinion polls as certain (Labour supporting) media commentators believe they should be at this stage of the game.

“From the beginning, when [David Cameron’s] leadership campaign struggled to attract the support of commentators, he learnt to do without…

 

....He is more at ease in the media salons of London than Mr Brown. But he has so far managed to resist the pressure to trade policies for headlines. That may explain why he has yet to secure the kind of fawning coverage from the press that Tony Blair enjoyed in 1996.”

 

And you can cut the bunkum about “Tony Blair having had a more substantial opinion poll lead than David Cameron at the same point in the electoral cycle”, too

 

Enough of this nonsense about David Cameron not having “sealed the deal”

 

They're at it again