Paper Monitor
11:45 UK time, Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Day two of the Conservative Party's annual autumn conference and guess who has their face splashed across the front page of the Daily Mail? Samantha Cameron? No, she's on page seven and is still wearing those £29 Zara shoes. David Cameron? No, his face doesn't make an appearance until page 14. Carla Bruni? No, she'll have to be happy with page 10 today.
In fact it's a very smug looking Tony and Cherie Blair. Conservatives need not get up in arms about it. The picture accompanies a story about taxpayers still paying £2m a year for a police protection team to guard the couple. It is also slotted alongside an article about how we may all have to work longer and retire later to plug the black hole in the country's finances.
If that doesn't put an equally smug smile on Tory faces, it also claims Cherie has been dubbed "Cherie Antoinette" because of her "love of fine things". Doesn't say by whom, but this is in stark contrast to the continued praise for Mrs Cameron and her "recession chic". On page seven you can just feel the love.
Talking of image, the Bullingdon Club debate continues today in the Daily Telegraph. Yet another of the David Cameron's "old friends" lines up to try and drum home just how ordinary he really is. This time James Delingpole defends his "old mucker Dave" and tries to explain what's wrong about the kerfuffle over "the Buller photo".
It's toe-curling reading. He says Dave was like any 19-year-old student at the time, listening to The Smiths and, err, Supertramp. Also, all students were in drinking clubs - not just Dave. At one, Mr Delingpole had to lick sorbet out of other people's belly buttons. At another the drink allocation for each guest was a bottle of red wine, one of white, one bottle of champagne and half a bottle of port. See, they really did live like any other undergraduate in the country in 1980s. Case closed.
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