Keir TIME TO LEVEL ON SLOGAN Mudie

TORIES who have been scratching their heads over just who to blame for the disastrous “levelling up” baloney have now come up with a surprise prime suspect.

The smart money is on the infamous former

Conservative MP and diarist, the late Alan Clark.

Famous more for his accounts of amorous liaisons with the wives and daughters of the great and good, the cad used the term in a diary entry from May 1990. He complained that the “levelling up” expectations among the lower classes were making it impossible to find suitably subservient domestic staff – servants.

A sentiment that Boris would [whatever]…