If the French establishment continues to fall below the level of events, the leader of the Front National will be in a strong position to challenge for the presidency in 2017.
He has dropped from view because he seems to have achieved the improbable feat, for a Conservative, of promoting change without picking a fight with NHS staff.
The Mayor’s book about Britain’s great Prime Minister has the valuable effect of making us look again at this titanic figure – Churchill, that is.
The case for Bercow as a great reformer tends to be obscured by his astonishingly bad manners.
If Labour had more MPs as bold as he is, the Tories would find themselves in a very much weaker position.
Or is he going to be overtaken by a new generation of MPs?
As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his Mansion House speech, here are the people who have stood by him ever since 2005
Since 2010 this ferocious adviser has done more than anyone else to drive through educational reforms, and to upset people.
Admirers of Hands say he has the toughness needed to speak truth to power. His detractors say he is far too close to the Chancellor.
This education minister knows what she fights for and loves what she knows.