Much has been made of the AWOL Tories in this campaign (step forward David Davis, Theresa May, Oliver Letwin and John Redwood).
But the Tories aren't the only party to be hiding some of their leading lights under a bushel. It occured to me this morning that in three weeks of 7.30am Liberal Democrat pressers, the previously all-too-ubiquitous Simon Hughes has never shown up, not to mention party stalwart and regular face of the 2001 campaign Alan Beith.
Meanwhile Labour's London mayor Ken Livingstone - who, with half a million votes or so under his belt, is the Labour politican with the largest mandate in the country - has only, to my knowledge, been let out of his cage to support the embattled pro-war Oona King in Bethnal Green & Bow and the equally anti-war Yasmin Quereshi in his old constituency of Brent East.
Any sightings of these AWOL politicos?
