ANDREW PIERCE: As the struggling Tories scramble for ideas to reinvigorate the party... will they go back to the future?

The Tories are flatlining in the polls under Kemi Badenoch and are now scrambling for ideas to reinvigorate the party. They could do worse than start with the famous 1979 Tory election poster devised by Saatchi & Saatchi for Mrs Thatcher's first general election campaign as Tory leader, Labour Isn't Working. Little-known Tory party chairman Nigel Huddleston and the entire party board are heading to the Bodleian Library in Oxford to examine the official party archive They could do worse than start with the famous 1979 Tory election poster devised by Saatchi & Saatchi for Mrs Thatcher's first general election campaign as Tory leader, Labour Isn't Working Depicting a dole queue snaking out of an unemployment office, it was a fatal blow to Labour and Thatcher won a 43-seat majority. Shiva Tiwari had been a Labour councillor for seven years until he switched last week It's particularly embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer, one of Camden's two Labour MPs The fling we all regret The memoir End Of An Era: The Decline And Fall Of The Tory Party by former minister Mark Field is the talk of Westminster. The memoir End Of An Era: The Decline And Fall Of The Tory Party by former minister Mark Field is the talk of Westminster While the book is gloomy about the party's prospects, most readers are more intrigued by the revelations about his 18-month affair with Liz Truss, which wrecked his first marriage nearly 20 years ago One shadow minister whispered to me yesterday: 'Thank God her premiership didn't last as long as the affair.