Boris Johnson on the turn?

‘Political correctness gone mad’; you’d have heard the Conel Blimps cry had this been Labour’s higher education spokesman praising Media Studies degrees and such. But it was the Tory’s higher education spokesman.

Boris Johnson, for he is it, was on Test Match Special’s lunchtime chat yesterday. He declared that he’s had to think again about the value of such new degree subjects. He’s concluded that they can be jolly fine courses after all and that many of the people who take them are quite decent chaps who go on to hold down useful careers.
Thing is, are such conversions for real or just a tactic to alienate slightly fewer of the population and thus pick up a few more votes?

These must be troubling times for many ‘traditional’ Tory voters. All their core beliefs and saloon bar certainties being tossed aside by the new front bench. Being at 40% in the polls will bring much consolation but seeing Labour only just behind at around 35% will do nothing to calm their fluttering nerves.

It could be an interesting few months after all.....