David Cameron should learn from the Queen's brilliant intuition We're never - or rarely - told what our sovereign thinks of politics and policy. She doesn't vote. She's not banned from doing so, but it would be considered unconstitutional. As Buckingham Palace puts it, it's all part of her role to unite the nation - "identifying with every section of society." And after six decades on the throne, the general consensus has always been that rising above politics is something at which the Queen excels. Her heir could perhaps learn from her example. Prince Charles' "black spider" memos to ministers in eight Whitehall departments got him into trouble in the last Labour administration. We haven't heard about any recent missives to coalition ministers, and you might expect the Royal family to rub along with the Tories rather better than they did with Labour. After all, Cherie Blair refused to curtsy to the royals. There's surely no such awkwardness with the Etonian David Cameron and his aristocratic wife. Yet Ben Pimlott's acclaimed biography of the Queen portrays her frankly as a bit of a leftie. She questioned the wisdom of Britain's invasion of Suez ("I think the Queen believed Eden was mad," Pimlott quotes one senior courtier as saying) and didn't approve of Margaret Thatcher's opposition to sanctions against South Africa. More recently, she made clear the Thatcher government should be more concerned about the poor and she worried about the damage to the social fabric of the 1984 miners' strike. But rather than a sign of leftiness, surely these views and concerns are simply a mirror held up to society. The country became concerned about the excesses and intolerances of the Thatcher era - that's why Tony Blair won by a landslide in 1997. So the Queen wasn't moulding politics to her own ends, but reflecting the prevailing views of her subjects. And so it is with the coalition Cabinet. Power sharing is what the nation united behind at the last election. And as she takes her place opposite the Deputy Prime Minister this morning, we can be fairly sure the monarch won't be leading her Government, but following it.