Prime Ministers shopping

There was a flurry of interest last Monday when David Cameron went to Morrisons to be photographed doing something the common people do, that is, shopping (right, photograph by Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire).

I thought the symbolism was not quite right: he was wearing a suit and tie with an overcoat.

One of my correspondents thought he remembered a similar picture of Harold Wilson, in which he thought Cameron’s predecessor had more successfully managed the Man of the People look.

Now my correspondent has found it (below). It is between pages 624 and 625 in Ben Pimlott’s superb Harold Wilson. It shows the Prime Minister in the Co-op on St Mary’s Island, one of the Scilly Isles, in 1975 (credited to the Labour Party Library/Syndication International). This is the way to do it:

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