Mr Whippy serves Blair and Brown

Try to conjure up an image of Gordon Brown on the election campaign trail. I wager that many of you cannot. If you are a political anorak you might, just might, recall footage of an awkward looking Brown being dragged in front of the cameras by Tony Blair in the 2005 campaign, when he was handed an ice-cream purchased by the then Prime Minister from a Mr Whippy van.

Remember: everyone loves a whippy