Andy McSmith's Diary: George Osborne's Agincourt gag costs him historian's vote

While the polls imply that George Osborne’s Budget last week has had no measurable impact on public opinion, the din of battle still resounds around the remarks he cracked about Agincourt. In his Budget speech, the Chancellor described the battle, 600 years ago this October, as a story of how “a strong leader defeated an ill-judged alliance between the champion of a united Europe and a renegade force of Scottish nationalists.” Get it? David Cameron equals Henry V, Ed Miliband is Charles VI