I try very hard to believe it but I just don't think that leaving the NHS ‘much the same as it is today' is really being ‘tough and bold'.

Some readers felt that I was being a bit harsh on the PM on Tuesday when I charted his failure to spot the problem that the health policy was to become on 4 separate occasions between the summers of 2010 and 2011. They felt that my suggestion that he had not really paid sufficient attention to what he was trying to achieve -because he didn't really do the policy work – was a mite unreasonable.