I have just been imagining the outpouring of bile there would have been from the Tory press and the Tories had Tony Blair died and we had:
** recalled Parliament
** insisted on a quasi state funeral with soldiers who'd served in Iraq or Afghanistan
** choreographed the daily statements from No.10 which today reached a new low when they released the names of those people they had invited - this surely is a Tory affair
** spent £2m on security for the funeral - okay that's a guess but No.10 is being obtuse about the costs yet they have had the arrangements in place for years