Frank Field should cross the floor

Every time Frank Field speaks or writes an article, I'm impressed and bemused. Impressed that he seems to have grasped ideas which his fellow backbenchers haven't and bemused because everything he says points to Tory policies.

For instance read this article, and it strikes you that it could have been written by George Osborne or Kenneth Clarke.

So why on earth does he continue to sit on the Government benches? One of the big mysteries of our times!

Squiffy.