Dave feels the squeeze

When the PM does the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on January 10, the programme is played out by Squeeze singing a song called From Cradle To Grave. When they are done, the PM applauds and the show is over. I think the band seem remarkably frosty to him. It soon emerges they’ve changed the lyrics of the song to complain about the destruction of the welfare state and council houses. ‘Of course, all of them live in council houses,’ says the PM sarcastically when I tell him.