Gerri Peev: Cam is Pol Rogered

APPARENTLY Tory leader David Cameron has been left fizzing over the snap showing him sipping champagne at party conference.

The frontpage of today's Mirror shows the Tory leader brandishing a glass of Pol Roger (a snip at only £140 a bottle) – and pictured next to him is The Scotsman's former political editor Fraser Nelson.

Cameron was papped at the Spectator party by a Mirror photographer, who was wrestled to the ground. The photographer threw his camera to a colleague who managed to make a dash for the exit before the incriminating pic could be wiped.

Now cheeky punters at Ladbrokes have laid bets with odds of 14/1 that Cameron will mention the word champagne in his party conference speech tomorrow.

The bookies think the Tory leader will have an equally gloomy speech to his Shadow Chancellor, offering odds of one to three that he will use the term tough decisions, and 5/2 that he will talk about “austerity”.

He may perhaps like to avoid apeing Nick Clegg in talking about “progressive austerity” though. As one senior Lib Dem said, it sounds like a wasting disease.

Unsurprisingly, punters don't rate the chances of Bercow, Bullingdon or duck island featuring in the speech and price them all at 25/1.

Ladbrokes' Robin Hutchinson said: "He's probably hoping his champagne moment will come in May next year".

Too bad he could not wait to put the party into conference....