A former colleague summed it up yesterday. "I want to help David," he told me. "And, to be frank, I want to be a minister even more. But I just can't live with proportional representation. My seat would be torn up. I could lose my job. And the party would split. It's a concession too far."
David Cameron may sometimes dream of ditching parts of the Right of his party – the bits that didn't vote for him as leader in 2005 and have grumbled ever since he won – and of strolling off into the sunset with Nick Clegg to build a new, dominant Centre Party (the Cleggaroons?). But in his heart, he knows that this shimmering vision is moonshine.
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