Nigel Farage is yet to become an MP, but has apparently set his sights on another high profile role...

the next James Bond.

When asked who should succeed Daniel Craig, he said: "It has to be male, it has to be a rogue of some description."

Told he could do it, Mr Farage replied: "I'm not handsome enough but I'm certainly rogue. I'd give it a go. How about that?"

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Lord Tebbit, the former Conservative Cabinet minister, is not known as a shrinking violet.

Indeed, he has come out hot and strong denouncing the Conservative manifesto as reading "like a McDonald's menu, rather than an agenda to secure the safety of the country". The Prime Minister will not be amused.

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In politics, you need a thick skin. During an election campaign, a hide of a rhinoceros might be more appropriate.

Just ask poor Nick Clegg, who has been likened to a tin of beans in an article in a prominent political weekly magazine, damningly headlined: "Nick Clegg: not the best, not the worst. Just what we're stuck with".

The New Statesman article says cruelly: "Have you ever made a stew and realised that it's woefully inadequate to feed the number of people for which it is intended? Or it's managed one meal but won't stretch to another, so you're forced to pad it out with a tin of beans. Any old beans will do. Any bulky, flavourless carbohydrate. Nick Clegg is that tin of beans."

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Ever wonder whether politicians struggle for small talk while meeting 'working people' for endless campaign trail photo-ops?

Well wonder no more. Unfortunately for David Cameron, one such exchange was picked up on camera yesterday.

"Well, this looks like a pretty good doorframe," said the PM, clearly enthralled during a visit to Decorative Panels. "Erm, well, it is yeah," came the reply.