Clarke,Duncan Smith and Hague is the deputy-This mornings shadow cabinet speculation

With so much speculation around who is coming back into the shadow cabinet,this mornings article in the Sun makes interesting reading.

Its leader concludes that

William Hague is deputy Tory chief in all but name, David Cameron tells The Sun.
The ex-party leader now ranks above Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, previously seen as Mr Cameron’s number two.
This is a clever move. Mr Hague is the most experienced, articulate and effective member of the Tory high command.
More important, his new status places a Yorkshire lad near the top of a party otherwise dominated by Old Etonians.

and as James Forsyth says at Coffee House

Over Christmas, William Hague’s standing in the party and David Cameron’s authority took a beating from reports that the shadow foreign secretary was prepared to resign rather than give up his outside interests. Today’s joint Cameron-Hague interview in The Sun can be seen as an attempt to move on from that

More speculation comes from Ben Brogan who has had a tip off

that Iain Duncan Smith is about to be brought back to the Shadow Cabinet to take on James Purnell.

Meanwhile Iain Martin reflects that

The danger for the Tory leadership is that this reshuffle speculation is now running all over the place and that if very little happens, and less recognisable members of the shadow cabinet who are not even household names in their own household are merely swapped for others in a half hearted fashion, the cry will go up of "damp squib".