“If you are to introduce radical change and drive radical change it is inevitable that you will be involved in controversy and it is inevitable that you will be unpopular.”
Plus: Princess Ann (Widdecombe); Jacqui Smith’s rampant rabbit; the BBC’s dreadful World Cup commentary; and, turning 52.
Or is he going to be overtaken by a new generation of MPs?
Osborne is up two places and now lies third. And Sajid Javid, a new entry, comes in above four of the other ones.
Photo-opportunities with Angelina Jolie are no substitute for military preparedness.
Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.
The failure of Yvette Cooper and Tristram Hunt in the Commons yesterday was a symptom of a bigger Opposition problem.
Can there be any other explanation for the Home Secretary’s sweeping advance than her recent speech to the Police Federation?
The Conservative Party has flung every minister, MP, candidate, activist and aristocrat it can lay its hands on into this fight.
It is expected to plan for the long-term as well as the short. It isn’t doing this – so change is needed.
With India’s imports from Germany coming in at almost double Britain’s, William Hague and George Osborne must make the most of this week.