This is history in the making, and that’s what it’s all about.
The most senior Minister in place at home has a great task before him – helping his country find a new international role (and restoring the morale of an exhausted department).
Plus: August, the best political month. Thatcher, the best post-war Prime Minister. Off to Any Questions. Off to Edinburgh. And: will I poison an MP?
You can only come back in politics if you have first left. And it’s better to take the decision yourself rather than have it forced on you.
With almost 200 votes behind her, she is the only candidate with a chance of steering a coherent Leave plan through a pro-Remain Commons.
Plus: the downfall of Boles. This Eagle won’t fly. What to do with Gove? Cameron should become Foreign Secretary. And: Out there in the country, Blair is still popular.
The Blair “demon eyes” poster devised by the Tories for the 1997 general election campaign, and reproduced here, failed because it came too soon.
“We do not agree that hindsight is required.”
The British people now have a chance, probably for the last time, to restore democratic institutions to their proper place.
While on the Labour front bench, Watson smiles the smile of a man who knows he will one day have to get rid of Corbyn.
As the referendum vote looms, Corbyn’s party is caught on immigration in a trap of its own devising.
Plus: EU heads-to-heads on LBC. Blair gets his retaliation in first. And: Some people think everything’s a conspiracy – and they may be right.
The negotiations will not require decisions of any higher magnitude than the military or security-related decisions that a Prime Minister must regularly make.