If this odd couple succeed, the millionaire gets to claim he made Brexit happen and the paper gets to imply that Brexit is illegitimate.
Whatever happens, the Conservative consensus is that the Party is pushing less hard in the city than in Copeland.
We have to be furtive when at the theatre, but the benefit is we have no choice but to hear and learn about the opinions of our opponents.
The combination of a small majority, radical intent, a flow of power one way to Cabinet Ministers and another to key aides requires adjustment.
What emerges through the mists is a more-or-less standard left-wing politician, but with a sensitive nose for where the political wind will blow next.
He’s certainly not a racist nor predominately a progressive – but, rather, almost laboratory-standard evidence of the Tory hunger for office.
Who are these people? They earn between £50,000 and £150,000 before tax. They are the natural aristocracy of white collar professionals.