I think these things are utterly irrelevant. I give you all that and raise you Pete Buttigieg. I do, however, think Tugendhat and Mordaunt both have a problem amongst MPs as they have next to no cabi… (View Post)

Green was Hancock's proposer in the 2019 leadership election. So, yes, he might have supported Hunt but by absolutely no means a banker for him (and he's not that brilliant a judge). This w… (View Post)

It is, with hindsight, absolutely amazing that Johnson spent several million on a suite intended to host DAILY press briefings. Virtually every day would have been lines from the PM that immediately … (View Post)

Not sure about this sort of counterfactual. Without COVID, there would have been other issues, other crises. Johnson would have lied, covered-up, thrown colleagues under the bus to save himself etc. … (View Post)

You'd be totally wrong, though. The by-elections caused by Parish and Khan were out of Johnson's control, just as most by-elections are. They happen, and lost by-elections are unhelpful to … (View Post)