Davis has the X factor

Another backer for David Davis - this time from an unlikely source, Simon Cowell, TV's Mr Nasty on the X factor.

According to Cowell,

"I tipped David Davis years ago. In modern politics you have got to look the part."The Tories keep electing ugly blokes as leader. It is never going to work."

"If Tony Blair looked like Robin Cook, he would never have got elected."

Mr Cowell is his usual sensitive self commenting about the late Robin Cook - but would we expect anything less?