ConservativeHome has an intriguing poll finding on its website. By a large majority, Tory members think George Osborne should give up either his job as shadow chancellor or his post as the party's general election co-ordinator.
The finding comes from one of ConservativeHome's surveys of the party membership. Asked whether they agreed the two jobs were "too big for one man", 67% of respondents said yes, and only 22% said no.
Admittedly, this seems to be something of an obsession for Tim Montgomerie, the ConservativeHome editor (who I'm beginning to think of as the Tory version of Neal Lawson - the ubiquitous voice of the activist).
Montgomerie wrote a blog last month in which he suggested suggesting Osborne would be better as a "very powerful deputy PM" because "the Conservative party needs 100% of George Osborne's political brain".
And yesterday he expanded on this theme in the Yorkshire Post.
When [Osborne] took on the two jobs, our economy was relatively OK and the workload looked manageable.
The same cannot be said of today, and many friends of the Conservative party now worry at reports that Mr Osborne only spends half of his time on his economy brief.
I don't think this position is sustainable. In such difficult economic times, we need a full-time chancellor and a full-time elections co-ordinator.
Osborne could do either job well, but risks excelling in neither if he does not choose one or the other.
My preference would be for him to become a powerful deputy prime minister alongside David Cameron in Downing Street.
My judgment partly reflects a belief that his skills are most attuned to a more strategic role and also my concern that the first chancellor of David Cameron's "age of austerity" will be very unpopular, very quickly.
Montgomerie, however, adds that he doesn't expect Cameron or Osborne to take his advice.
