How not to destroy Trump and Johnson

In both cases their opponents resort to character assassination and are left with no one against whom they can argue.

A Government of national unity is a non-starter – even if its seven prospective leaders take one day of the week each

Their real aim is to overturn the referendum result, wreck Brexit and destroy the Government we actually have.

Johnson recognises the importance of instinct and feeling in the Brexit argument

The idea that one side or the other has a monopoly of truth is rightly abhorrent to him.

The life of Gove, Cameron’s Jeeves and Johnson’s stooge

Owen Bennett sets out the known facts about an astonishing Tory.

Why the Left prefers condemning the Prime Minister to understanding him

Brainless tribalism led it to underestimate Johnson.

Johnson has the inestimable advantage of a divided Opposition

Campbell’s public letter testifies to the depth of the split on the Left.

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

Time is running out for Corbyn as well as May

Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.

Hustings in Maidstone. Johnson offers glutinous harmony while Hunt is “the better Jeremy”.

The front-runner promised over a thousand Party members to employ “creative ambiguity” to achieve Brexit by October 31st.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May denounces Corbyn as a Groucho Marxist

The Speaker must rein in self-indulgent MPs who no longer try to express themselves with the greatest possible concision and force.

Hunt bends every sinew to make this contest a two-horse race

He is an admirably English candidate, a sensitive and prudent man who can be relied on to behave like an officer and a gentleman.

Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson dominates without being there

In a low blow, the Scottish Nationalists pretend to back Hunt.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Hunt now threatens Johnson with grey on grey action

Hunt’s people insist he can surprise Johnson.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Black arts, FSBs and as they come to the last it’s still neck and neck

Jokes continue to be told, but it would be wrong to suggest the contest has been fought in a spirit of unwearying amity.