The former Environment Secretary sets out the alternative to joining the “new country” the Eurozone is set to form.
In his second big speech since leaving the Cabinet, he urges Cameron to trigger the process for Britain leaving the EU.
But the Conservatives need fundamental change.
Gove is up to third – but it’s still a two-horse race between the Home Secretary and Boris Johnson.
The text of my speech from yesterday evening’s debate on the future of the centre-right with Matthew Parris.
Like a latter-day Gladstone, the former Environment Secretary has come among us unmuzzled.
Post the announcement of his intended return to the Commons, the Mayor’s support is up by eight points.
The former Defence Secretary gives his view on quitting the EU, its appeasement of Putin, and the reshuffle – “what’s done is done”.
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“If you are to introduce radical change and drive radical change it is inevitable that you will be involved in controversy and it is inevitable that you will be unpopular.”
And the subject of their joint sermon? Europe, of course, and the chances of repatriating powers from Brussels.
While new women smiled on the Treasury Bench, scattered about the Chamber were ex-ministers who imagined they could afford to think for themselves.
Osborne is up two places and now lies third. And Sajid Javid, a new entry, comes in above four of the other ones.