The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, is pressing ahead with his mission to roll back what he terms the "obsessive lawmaking" of the New Labour years.
He was vigorously opposed to Greg Dyke's stance on the David Kelly affair, becoming one of Labour's Hutton obsessives.
David Cameron's government is more obsessive about news management than the Tony Blair's New Labour administration was, according to British TV's longest-serving political editor.
"Let me get this straight," he repeated in a Guardian article in May 2003 about the EU constitution plan, which Tony Blair supported but on which the Labour party was reluctant to allow a referendum, "I am no Euro obsessive".
A self-confessed political "geek" and football obsessive, she was caught on camera saying she wanted to "stick the nut on" – head butt – Labour councillors after the referendum result.
These dreary obsessives are Cameron's most dangerous foes and Corbyn's best friends, offering the new Labour leader his best hope of gaining power by dividing the Tories.
