The Prime Minister is fed up with attacks from parliamentarians who never say how they themselves would balance the books.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats hopes the American President will do for him what he has just done for Carney.
Piketty and Sandel belong to an elite which maintains its privileges by proclaiming its egalitarianism.
The PM never nails his colours to the mast, for fear his crew might mutiny.
Labour ministers who until recently yearned to rejoin the European Union now proclaim their devotion to the United Kingdom.
Nobody on the Liaison Committee made a proper attempt to derail the PM.
He went on to tell the House that there is no need to take sides over Trump’s tariffs and we must keep our feet on the ground.
But he does show how Tory MPs fell out of love with Johnson, and could not win with the irreproachable Sunak.
The Chancellor strove to conceal the preposterousness of her latest Five Year Plan by being very dull indeed.
At moments when Labour MPs were supposed to be cheering the Prime Minister, perhaps one in five of them were.
Starmer is so intent on demonstrating his claims to virtue, and the Tories’ irredeemable wickedness, that he can sound vulnerable.
But the mantle of statesmanship which had descended on the PM was cast aside as soon as domestic politics came up.
The PM emerges from this book as more formidable, and more of a match for the Tories, than his detractors realise.
A touchy Prime Minister who rearms too little and too late flies off to negotiate with a foreign leader he detests.
But he could also use his electoral weakness as a spur to carry out the serious reforms which Germany and Europe need.