The Health Secretary answered questions about the NHS with equal confidence.
The eerie atmosphere at this conference is the calm in a party which wants to come back together.
The Defence Secretary confirmed that he has scrapped the zero-tolerance approach to drug-taking in the armed forces, and commanding officers now have discretion.
Ministers proclaim that social reform is patriotic.
Raab trod gingerly in Heseltine’s footsteps, while the Leader of the House presented the Shakespearean drama of politics.
The former Prime Minister also failed to grasp that Merkel was not going to do anything very much for him.
There was a drilled, demeaning feel to the burst of clapping with which his backbenchers greeted him.
Cox fulminated against Opposition MPs for being frightened of voting for a general election.
Corbyn has been wily enough not to plunge into the Brexit trap set for him by Johnson.
“Dignity, kindness, authority rather than bossiness, and I do believe that those things could be brought to the Chair by a woman.”
Johnson stands accused of trying to drive through Brexit in accordance with the referendum result.
Never before has so much material been assembled from such a wealth of sources about the Leader of the House.
Churchill in his Liberal days wore with pride the scar inflicted on his forehead by the copy of Commons Standing Orders hurled at him by an enraged Tory in 1912.
The Prime Minister reminded everyone that he likes nothing better than to go out in rough seas.
And Bercow, bad-mannered to the end, announces that he at least will leave on 31st October