Fall Guys

David Davis is threatening to lead a rebellion over the repeal of the Human Rights Act, which David Cameron only included in the Conservative manifesto in order to sacrifice it in the course of coalition negotiations.

There has never been any way that it was actually going to be enacted, but things have turned out such that the only way for that inevitable outcome to become manifest is for the Government to be defeated on the floor of the House of Commons.

The Government's majority is so small that there are easily enough Conservative MPs who will vote for any realistic opportunity to defeat it, regardless of the cause. Of course, we have been here before.

Perhaps in order to atone for his chaotic time as Education Secretary and then as Chief Whip, or perhaps in order to punish him for them, Michael Gove has been set up as the fall guy. He will be given a peerage when, after his third spell of Cabinet incompetence, he returns to full-time journalism halfway through this Parliament.

Speaking of the scribblers, Simon Heffer's column did not appear on Saturday, the day before Peter Hitchens's was absent for the third week running. The anti-Cameron Right has been by far the biggest loser from this Election.

But on the floor of the House, it will have its revenge. Over, and over, and over, and over again.