Conservatives parade converts to their cause

Am at Battersea Power Station, which the Tories have chosen as venue for a parade of converts, long-time Labour voters who have seen the light.

One of them is former Mirror editor Mike Molloy, now a children’s author.

There are three new posters to go with this campaign, and alongside it a Labour-leaning policy announcement with a Tory pro-cooperatives policy.

The cooperative movement didn’t have a particularly good time of it the last time the Tories were in power.

The development agency that created cooperatives was abolished and, of course, a different but related creature, the building societies were demutualised.

I asked if Mr Cameron genuinely meant to promise that cooperatives in the public sector would be as big a change as the sale of council homes or had he got the decimal point in the wrong place again?

He said the sky was the limit but it couldn’t be top down.

He says he caught a bit of the PM on Piers Morgan last night and thought it was perfectly okay thing to do but that Piers Morgan wouldn’t be picking up a Pulitzer Prize for his tough questioning.