While Labour attack the press, Javid, May and Grayling are wooing them with hard policy.
The heart of the matter is the suggestion that innocent British citizens should be extradited so that foreign criminal suspects can also be.
The Home Secretary has reformed it to make it fit for purpose. With these changes now in effect, the EAW should be an important part of the police’s armoury.
It would be symbolic of our willingness to say to those abusers who think they are untouchable because they have power: “No, you are not.”
Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.
Gove is up to third – but it’s still a two-horse race between the Home Secretary and Boris Johnson.
The next day, I went to deliver leaflets in Rochester. We kept being delayed by Simon Burns insisting on showing passing punters his Hillary Clinton watch.
She has pared the Home Office back to dealing what she regards as essentials: security policy, border control, policy formation.
Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.
Cameron shouldn’t abandon his campaign on the economy and security.
There are suggestions that the Conservatives should seek to impose emergency controls – and dare Nick Clegg to break up the Coalition.
We can be proud of our work around the world – but we must persuade voters that it is necessary and well-targeted.
With: David Mundell’s non-flag. £4.50 for an egg mayonnaise roll. Justice for Rob Wilson. Swearing from Lord Ashcroft. And: How will we all survive without the Bow Group?
Plus: Determined, Bewildered, Despondent, Ecstatic…IDS adapts his Work Programme categories for Conservative MPs
What the Home Secretary wrote in Opposition in 2007.