Wallace is top again – with Cleverly, Badenoch, Braverman, Rees-Mogg and Mordaunt above 50 points. There’s a tentative air about this table, as the panel feels its way with the new regime.
Morgan is Culture Secretary from the Lords, Hart Welsh Secretary – and this holding operation presages a bigger reshuffle after Brexit at the end of January.
That said, there was more backing for her from her party than some of today’s headlines suggest.
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If we vote to leave, everything around us will react to our decision and we just don’t know what the cost of that reaction will be.
Our white goods will speak to the smart meter so the dishwasher, washing machine or tumble drier is waiting to spring to life at the most favourable tariff.
On the surface, this intake looks different from those that have preceded it – and is in some respects. But beneath it, this is in many ways a very traditional Tory group.
We have to make the right decisions today to keep the lights on in ten years’ time, and nuclear is vital as we transition to clean energy.