Is David Cameron prepared to show some bottle and drop George Osborne?

Yesterday Paul Waugh in The Standard reports that ConservativeHome's Tim Montgomerie on Friday posted a piece revealing that

"following a less than stellar few weeks for CCHQ, Andy Coulson and Steve Hilton (the yin and yang of Cameronism) are now sharing an office. Coordination between strategy and tactics should be improved, we're told."

But more interestingly Tim Montgomerie stated that:

"The Shadow Chancellor's Mais lecture was his last big economic statement before the election, he says, and he will be stepping back from the front line to focus on his other job as campaign chief.

"Ken Clarke will fill the gap by being more of the public face for Conservative economic policy"."

Remember that

"City AM had a poll suggesting that the boys in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf prefer Ken to George. "

Meanwhile I note that The Mail report that:

"David Cameron has revealed that he would be prepared to sack his closest ally and 'good friend' George Osborne if necessary.

He said the pair have discussed the Shadow Chancellor moving into another job 'several times' over recent years.

'We get along very well, as friends and we like each other which is always a good start,' the Tory leader said in an interview for Trevor McDonald Meets David Cameron.

...

'George is a big man. He understands politics is about big decisions and he wanted to bring Ken back, the last chancellor to bring us out of a recession and I thought "Great",' Mr Cameron said."

Could David Cameron be about to make an announcement that will spike some of Labour's guns? Could he, would he? Labour could spin this as a panic move but Ken Clarke is a more congenial figure than George Osborne, who has an unfortunately very punchable face. Also Ken can talk about how Gordon Brown has destroyed the golden economic legacy that he left when the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election.