What is less recognised is the way in which David Cameron’s Government decided, not without risk to the Conservatives’ electoral prospects in some key marginals, to withhold patronage and money from some Muslim organisations that, fitfully, had gained both under Labour.
I called recently for the Cabinet to tell Johnson that the game is up, and Dowden’s resignation is the closest that any of them have got.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
We see evident now in the Tory Party, my party, a strange mix of complacency, entitlement, fear and exhaustion.
No Conservative leader has lost a challenge as Prime Minister, but neither have any survived their victories by as much as a year.
The subject has not yet been sufficiently studied, but there is clearly an affinity between the Hindu ethic and the spirit of conservatism.
The Environment Secretary, in charge of the seven-year transition from the Common Agricultural Policy, prefers to do good by stealth.
As Blair realised, but his successor apparently does not, hysterical denunciations of political leaders are liable to prove counter-productive.
At a time of pressure on public spending, delivering efficiency savings is especially important.
The UKIP leader spotted the opportunity to attack the pious Establishment from a reactionary rather than a progressive direction.
There was a disconcerting absence of disagreement as MPs competed with each other to see who could demand the toughest sanctions.
Liz Truss, and to a lesser extent Rishi Sunak, have been reticent in making a case for the achievements of the period. Is that because there are so few?