In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.
All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
This old-style socialist turns out to be much more of a small-c conservative than his many critics are willing to admit.
It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?
When his family fell on hard times, education made the difference. Were there to be a vacancy in that department, he would be an obvious candidate.
Here is a politician educated at Sandhurst and on active service with the Scots Guards in Northern Ireland, not by reading PPE at Oxford.
As soon as the emphasis shifts from surviving the pandemic to reviving the economy, he will become a key figure.
She may appear to present a softer target than he does, but she has never been afraid of fighting her corner.
With her odd mixture of indiscretion and obedience, her contempt for liberal groupthink and love of freedom, she in many ways a useful ally.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
O’Toole is a strong supporter of CANZUK, the projected alliance of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Hoyle and Fowler are deeply opposed to the move, but Labour voters in the North of England like the sound of it.
He has demonstrated prodigious powers of endurance, keeping going through storms of criticism which would have driven many a lesser figure out of politics.
Few people understand better than the Culture Secretary how the government machine works, or fails to work.