Late, late calling

The perils of election campaigns were illustrated this week by none other than Lord Saatchi

The perils of election campaigns were illustrated this week by none other than Lord Saatchi. He told a lunch for Forward Publishing in Dublin on Thursday that in 1951, the Tories created a new advertising theme. Posters and flyers were produced showing a fresh-faced young man leaping out of bed with the caption "Get up and go with the Conservatives". The posters were already winging their way to locations throughout Britain when a sharp ad man spotted a potential disaster. The alarm clock on the bedside table read 10.15 a.m.