Nick Boles - arsehole of the week, so far

Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles is the newby Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford in Lincolnshire. A product of Winchester, Oxford and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, one would expect to find him in the Labour party.

Hang on a moment - you may say - he founded the Policy Exchange think-tank, so influential among the Cameronians. To which I reply - in what way does that contradict my opening statement?

To remove all doubt, Boles has contributed this piece of crawling "triangulation" to the Guardian. "David Miliband belongs in the coalition", forsooth.

If President Obama can keep Republican Robert Gates as secretary of state for defence,[1] does Britain have to forfeit the remarkable talent of David Miliband? [2] Can the coalition afford to do without the passionate expertise of Andrew Adonis as it completes his quest to connect Britain's great cities with high-speed rail? Must we try to build the "big society" without the help of James Purnell, who saw that the spirit of reform was leaving Labour long before anyone else? [3] I hope not. Their membership of Labour should not bar them from playing their part. Let us make this the reform coalition and welcome all those who want to build a better Britain.

1. We do not have a presidential system, arse-hole.
2. What are David Miliband's remarkable talents - apart from losing, that is?
3. Is the coalition so bereft of talent that it has to import it from its political opponents?