Nicholas Boles, head of David Cameron's "implementation team" and one of his inner circle of advisers, has just said he hopes the Conservatives will not win by a landslide at the next general election.
In a moment that recalled Francis Pym's notorious 1983 admission that he thought landslide governments dangerous – a statement that prompted Margaret Thatcher to sack him as her foreign secretary – Boles told a Guardian's fringe meeting this evening that he hoped Cameron would win next year by a "decent, but not over-large majority".
Let's hope, for Boles's sake, that Cameron is a more patient boss than Mrs T ...
