The Prime Minister was in gracefully valedictory mode, while the Leader of the Opposition behaved like a not very articulate limpet.
Endorsements don’t matter all that much. But the tone and flavour of coverage does – what stories are selected; how they are written; how they are projected.
Fox and Leadsom are on 13 per cent, Crabb is on 9 per cent, the rest are nowhere.
Cameron’s successor will have no mandate from voters and the Government already has no workable majority in the Commons.
There is a strong case for appointing a new Party Chairman who is neutral between the contenders.
It will risk being unable to get its business through the Commons.
Plus: Fox, an assured voice for Leave. Clarke and Heseltine, missing voices for Remain. And: Mark Regev, a persuasive voice for Israel.
Some advice from the former to the latter.
Part One of a ConHome series on how the Prime Minister’s aim of a reformed Europe, claimed by him as the basis for a Remain vote, was not achieved by his renegotiation.
How Cameron can bind up the Party’s wounds post-election.
Her scores are among the highest we tend to see in our monthly Cabinet League Table – amidst a general fall in ratings elsewhere.
“So regardless of the EU referendum, my view is this. If we want to reform human rights laws in this country, it isn’t the EU we should leave but the ECHR and the jurisdiction of its Court.”
A leadership contest now is not in the interests of our country.