BEGONE, Sarah Brown and your boring blacks and greys.

Bright idea ... on stage

By decking herself out in bright, bold colour yesterday, Sam Cam proved she is whole-heartedly in touch with current trends — and isn’t that exactly the message her husband wants to send out?

The dazzling emerald dress — by cutting-edge designer Phillip Lim — and daring orange shoes also showed that Mrs Cameron, 37, has winning chic AND cheek.

After all, the modern, confident look made the plain clobber worn by the PM wife’s at her own husband’s conference speech last week look drab, stuffy and definitely OUT.