A clubby, chummy, synthetic encounter with Cameron
Partly it is general caution about security. Partly it is specific caution about another Gordon Brown “bigoted woman” moment. But it is all about caution.
Voters need to know that what is daily passed off as an election “campaign” at times feels like nothing more than an antiseptic exercise in keeping our party leaders away from real voters and real situations at all costs.
So I will tell you what these events are really like.
This morning the Prime Minister came to “Scotland” to launch the Scottish Tory manifesto.