The document Timothy had penned baffled the press team. One adviser saw it as an ‘over-intellectualised’ product of ‘Red Tory’ philosophising, rather than a series of sellable proposals: ‘There was no flesh to any of it. I went upstairs thinking there would be some kind of road map to removing the public sector pay cap. Instead we got gruel yesterday, gruel today, and here’s a bunch of gruel for tomorrow. I expected a rabbit out of a hat on housebuilding. All it said was “We’re going to build some houses.” Well fine, but how?’
