Baroness Vadera has come in for heavy criticism, after claiming to see "green shoots" of economic recovery - echoing former Chancellor Norman Lamont's famously premature use of the phrase in 1991.
The Business Minister - one of Gordon Brown's friends in the City, given a peerage and power by the Prime Minister to ensure the job didn't go to some unreliable elected MP who might conceivably put the good of the country before corporate interests - made her unfortunate choice of words in an ITV interview, saying, "I am seeing a few green shoots but it's a little bit too early to say exactly how they'd grow."
She then went on to wave a British Airways dinner menu, which she claimed guaranteed "peace for our time", adding jovially that "Mr Recession has missed the bus".
The Conservative spokesman for business, Alan Duncan, condemned the Baroness' comments. "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing," he said. "Depart, I say; and let us have done with you."
"In the name of Gord, go," he added.
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